On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:57:49AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > 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.
A dmesg would have shown how many physical disks are in the system. It's an example of how not providing a dmesg because you don't think it's relevant, can imply that you know enough not to need your hand held, and therefore just get the direct answer to the question you asked, (which is what I provided, nothing more, nothing less). In previous posts to the list, the OP said that he is porting libreswan to OpenBSD. So it's perfectly reasonable to assume that he is somewhat familar with the OS, and therefore shouldn't require the "don't use a single / partition" warning.
