just as a note to users who are new. most utilities have a nice help -- it is very standard (at least across gnu utils) to have a "--help" flag. if that fails, try "-h" or "-help"... On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tom Schaefer wrote:
phillip mannie wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your ideas and advice...I did the deed and thought a report might be at least mildly interesting as I chose to use YaST.
In retrospect, I believe that fdisk, mke2fs, edit /etc/fstab would be the ideal way to proceed, as Michael and Tom suggested. This is not because there is anything *wrong* with YaST, but because I am familiar with the operation of these *IX tools in general. I believe that the old-fashioned way is more consonant with the *IX philosophies of small-is-beautiful, a-tool-for-every-job and at-least-one-way-to-connect-each-tool. I hope that LINUX never abandons the do-it-yourselfer, while going on to create widgets to help those who may *not* be entirely comfortable with fdisk and mkfs.
Open systems - I really like the duality of being able to use either or both command line utilities and gui based utilities, but I think that this is a case where Yast suffers from a bit of "over-engineering". You will be amazed to find that the manual system of partitioning, formatting and assigning mount points is not really all that difficult, it's just rather dry and boring, and a bit tedious. Many people do not have the patience to step through a learning curve using a series of processes to bring a drive on line. They'd rather watch a cartoon-like graphical tool or even a character based tool to just "get it done" and report the results.[...]
So now, I'm thinking of going through the fdisk, mkfs thing to see what (if any) unexpected stuff might occur.
Start with the man pages ... and the SuSE web/html based help pages are a good resource too ...
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