[oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Toomas Soome]

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 13:08, cretin1997 <cretin1997 at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:35 PM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>> Yes, the code of format command is mess (I have been in it more than I would like to;), also we would need better tooling to handle disk partitioning, allowing easy scripting etc, something like freebsd gpart has been in my mind for a long time, but I haven't had time to think about it more…
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>> rgds,
>> toomas
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> Too bad FreeBSD's gpart seemed to depend on FreeBSD's GEOM framework. Porting it from FreeBSD seemed to not easy. Luckily, we have a snapshot of FreeBSD before they switched to GEOM, DragonflyBSD. Do you think DragonflyBSD's gpt tool is easier to port, sir?
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> https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=gpt&section=8

no, it is not about porting it, but the command line logic and functionality. we do have format, fdisk, prtvtoc, fmthard, all doing some subset of tasks and even if you can feed some input data, the customization would need awk/sed and fancy scripting:D  See /bin/usbgen for example;)

rgds,
toomas