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'
