Re: autoinstall (eg: disklabel -T) doesn't support templates that specify partition sizes in sectors?
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016, Erling Westenvik wrote: [I'm only replying because I ran into a problem in this area and posted a patch suggestion to the tech list; a different fix was applied after some discussion.] > templates, I was a little surprised to find that disklabel(8) apparently > does not support specifying partition sizes givin in sectors, only in ... > or megabytes. But I got curious as to why templates cannot be specified > in sectors? Just a guess: maybe because nobody needed it (so far)? apply_unit() in src/sbin/disklabel/editor.c might be something you want to look at and provide a patch? If a developer considers it interesting/important enough, it might get into the tree.
autoinstall (eg: disklabel -T) doesn't support templates that specify partition sizes in sectors?
Experimenting with autoinstall(8) and predefined partition layout templates, I was a little surprised to find that disklabel(8) apparently does not support specifying partition sizes givin in sectors, only in units (b,c,k,m,g,t) and/or percentages? Am I missing out on something obvious here? My use case is the need to make autoinstallations that would be installed onto (large) HDD/SSD's but with sector sized boundries such that the installations could fit *exactly* onto, lets say 4 or 8GB flash media. Not the end of the world, of course. I will survive wasting a few kilo- or megabytes. But I got curious as to why templates cannot be specified in sectors? This is OpenBSD 6.0. Cheers, Erling
