I don't know if I'm misreading your inquiry but if I have more than enough
storage space why would I allocate way too much space to system partitions
by allocating it proportionally?

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:18 PM David Uhden Collado <da...@uhden.dev> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have observed that the automatic partitioning feature of disklabel(8)
> does not allocate more than approximately 350GB to system partitions
> [1]. In my opinion, the tool should have been designed to use all
> available space on the storage device when partitioning. To address this
> limitation, I had to write a custom program that calculates partition
> sizes to maintain their initial proportions while occupying the entire
> storage device.
>
> I would like to understand the rationale behind this design choice. Is
> there a specific reason why the automatic partitioning is limited to
> around 350GB for system partitions? Any insights or explanations you can
> provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> References:
> 1. https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION
>
> Best regards,
> David.
>
>

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