Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 at 10:52, Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to use <<disklabel -A -T ...>> to auto partition a disk
> > > > > with most of the disk assigned to / but also with some swap.
> > > >
> > > > Try:
> > > >
> > > > /       1g-*    100%
> > > > swap    1g      0%
> > > 
> > > That worked:
> > > 
> > > [root@openbsd root]# disklabel sd0
> > > ...
> > > #                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize   cpg]
> > >   a:         18874240               64  4.2BSD   2048 16384 12960 # /
> > >   b:          2097152         18874304    swap                    # none
> > >   c:         20971520                0  unused
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Can I suggest adding this as an example to disklabel(8).  I suspect
> > > assigning the entire disk to / is a common scenario, and would help
> > > clarify how * and % interact.
> > 
> > That is a bad advice. Using single / is just bad habit and does not allow
> > to limit mountpoints with nodev, nosuid or wxallowed. For disks in the 10G
> > space I would make sure that /var, /tmp, /usr, /home are different
> > partitions.
> 
> Just for the record, the original post doesn't actually mention anything
> about this being for the _root_ disk.
> 
> I assumed that he had a second or subsequent disk that was to be used as
> a single volume, but wanted to reserve a small space for swap to improve
> performance by interleaving the swap over multiple physical disks.


It is you making an assumption on thin evidence.  99% of our user base has
1 disk.

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