Re: Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)
On 2009/07/16 16:43, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi Theo and tech@, On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:42:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z? With 2T disks out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones. I could make it 32 partitions, but utterly break backwards compatibility with previous releases... or accept that the current situation covers 99.99% of usage cases. Good work on the new installer improvements. I especially like the initial user creation, as its the first thing I used to do on a new system. I just wacked in a large (by my standards) FCAL disk into my Sun; it is 136GB in size. The installer's auto-layout wanted to make relatively small root and /usr partitions (I'm assuming the minimums). Could be nice if the slice sizes scaled up across larger disks? Perhaps based upon a percentage of the total disk available? Just a minor thought really. they do, up to a limit. see the space_allocation struct's in disklabel/editor.c
new installer disklabel question
Hello, As an OpenBSD hobby user, I really appreciate your new installer and your automatic disklabel feature it is of GREAT help. I'm not very comfortable with fdisk and disklabel so this is a really welcomed feature and aid. Though, I'm missing 1 disklabel, the /altroot label, as it helped me several times in the past. Is there any reason why you omit this label creation? Do you think it could be added in the future to the automatic label creation or may be adding it after f.ex. answering a question (do you want an /altroot blah blah ...?) ? I know it should not be considered as a standard backup solution, but it still is a nice help. Kind regards, Didier
Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)
On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:44:40 Theo de Raadt wrote: As an OpenBSD hobby user, I really appreciate your new installer and your automatic disklabel feature it is of GREAT help. I'm not very comfortable with fdisk and disklabel so this is a really welcomed feature and aid. Though, I'm missing 1 disklabel, the /altroot label, as it helped me several times in the past. Is there any reason why you omit this label creation? Do you think it could be added in the future to the automatic label creation or may be adding it after f.ex. answering a question (do you want an /altroot blah blah ...?) ? I know it should not be considered as a standard backup solution, but it still is a nice help. We have 16 partitions. Amongst that are b and c. So we have 14 partitions. We can potentially discover i - p using MBR reading or whatnot on other architectures, so we have potentially even less. We never did altroot automatically, and we don't do it now. What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z? With 2T disks out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones. --STeve Andre'
Re: Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)
What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z? With 2T disks out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones. I could make it 32 partitions, but utterly break backwards compatibility with previous releases... or accept that the current situation covers 99.99% of usage cases.
