On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 06:58:45AM +0300, tchi ci wrote: > Hi. > > It is just as the subject says. > > During installation, there comes a point where partitioning is > necessary. The default, e.g. just pressing enter, will automatically > take over the whole drive, which is fine I suppose; however, the lack of > a confirmation isn't. > > Personally, I was going to manually create the partitions, and I decided > I wanted to use more space than I originally planned, but I needed to > shrink a btrfs, which requires me to boot into a Linux. I aborted out of > fdisk, then it prompted me again to create the partitions. I wanted to > shutdown (and was too lazy to press the power button), so, trying to get > to the shell to poweroff, I press either ctrl-c or ctrl-d; however, the > default action was chosen without confirmation, and there goes my > partition table... (I was able to get it back; no worries). > > That was 3 to 4 months ago. I thought I'll try OpenBSD another day. > Today was the day! Only for the same exact thing to happen again... > Seems like I just don't learn. > > Still, a confirmation for overwritting an existing partiton table would > be a bit useful, I guess. > > Regards.
If you mindlessly press enter without reading the prompts, you're going to have a bad day. There are several opportunities to customly partition your disk in a way that preserves non-OpenBSD partitions, but by default the assumption is that you will be installing OpenBSD to the entire disk, if you aren't 100% committed to installing OpenBSD, don't boot into the installler. :-) -Bryan.
