SADE(8)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

💾 SADE(8) — sysadmins disk editor

okay so this is the manual page for sade, and it lives in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual — yes bestie, we're in admin territory 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sade

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no arguments, no drama. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the sade utility is your girl for various disk administration tasks on FreeBSD systems. disk stuff. admin stuff. she does it.

and the standard way to run her? literally just:

sade

no arguments, just vibes — that's the default behavior, and it presents you with the main menu. a whole little menu. for your disks. slay 🦋

📝 NOTES 📝

so the whole point of sade — her entire main character energy — is providing a handy tool for disk management tasks on a system that's already installed. like, installation already happened, we're post that, we're chilling.

the goal, per the note: give you the same text interface for disk management that you get from bsdinstall(8), but in the post-installation environment. same text interface, new context. iykyk 🫶

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

  • bsdinstall(8) — the installer friend she's twinning with 💖
  • gpart(8) — more disk-adjacent goodness ⭐

📚 HISTORY 📚

so a program called sade first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3 as a utility that encapsulated features from the sysinstall(8) installer. basically a glow-up of the installer's greatest hits 💫

then in FreeBSD 10.0 she got replaced — not by a rival, but by the equivalent part of bsdinstall(8). evolution. growth. we love to see it 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> — the icon, the legend 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, this utility misses a lot of nice features 😭 like, for example, tools for manipulating gmirror(8). those are just... not here yet. the manpage says, quote-unquote, "These will be added later." so like — noted. eventually. we're manifesting it 🕯️✨

fr fr though: if you were hoping for gmirror(8) tooling in here, she does not have it. not yet. that's the bug note, bestie, and we respect the honesty 💅

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🌸 that's the whole page, and before you go — this beauty is dated December 30, 2012, from Debian's packaging corner of the world. go manage some disks responsibly, mwah 💋🎀

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