Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:46:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > 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. > > The original post did not include a dmesg. > > It should have done.
Why should it contain a dmesg? The dmesg has nothing to do with this.
