From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 20:04:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAC316A9B3 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F190A43D45 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:04:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x29so4988nfb for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 13:04:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=spLZ37GtM2IF2NwBpoc4IkU9hKK618h5PR6W6pe7Mdx8gFAEbzySVnrUPJMdZrXBmjeXILbOx7URh/44h/1b//UDikpWtKw4hAY8TmqE1Yb6fYo0im8mDkdIcsYY93Lo2/KQoMggZttwgP5Erua63+Blqb/nlDUDBSCIcPKfiYY= Received: by 10.48.237.14 with SMTP id k14mr110565nfh; Tue, 16 May 2006 13:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.lan ( [212.143.154.227]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r33sm234780nfc.2006.05.16.13.04.24; Tue, 16 May 2006 13:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:04:00 +0300 From: Rostislav Krasny To: Marius Nuennerich Message-Id: <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060516202529.1d725675@sol> References: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <4468FA1C.7040105@fubar.geek.nz> <20060516084310.05af8de4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516202529.1d725675@sol> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Turner Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:04:38 -0000 On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:29 +0200 Marius Nuennerich wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006 08:43:10 +0300 > Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:01:00 +1200 > > Andrew Turner wrote: > > > > > Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png > > > > > > > > I think this menu should be changed, so one could select not only the > > > > slice size but also where it begins. Ideally this should be defined by > > > > three numbers: 'start sector', 'end sector' and 'size in sectors'. > > > > Changing the 'size in sectors' should also change the 'end sector', and > > > > changing 'start sector' or 'end sector' should also change the 'size in > > > > sectors', automatically. > > > > > > > The start position is defined by the previous "partitions" (bsd slices) > > > on the disk. > > > I would like to change it to accept size in MB, GB, TB, etc. > > > > And if one wants to reserve some unallocated space at the beginning of > > the disk? I understand, you're trying to make partitioning a simple task > > but sometimes doing it by an advanced way may also be needed. One, who > > wants to partition the disk by the simple way, will use just the third > > number, i.e. the size (in sectors or in MB). > > Why not just use 16 sectors offset like bsdlabel -w does? What do you mean? I was talking about making BSD slices.