Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:18:57 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment Message-ID: <14190.1354925937@tristatelogic.com>
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My apologies if this is not the Right Place to raise this issue. I just now submitted the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174269 (Please ignore the small typo in the title. That should have been "bsdinstall/partedit" not "basinstall/partedit".) Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone here has an opinion that (a) I am crazy, and ought to remain silent or else (b) there is something obvious that I missed or else (c) the problem described in the PR really is a horribly serious issue which is likely to screw up quite a lot of people/installations. If possibility (c) applies, then I would also like to know if anybody has any suggestions for how I might be able to get this problem escalated so that (hopefully) it gets dealt with before 9.1-RELEASE is finalized. Regards, rfg P.S. As noted in the PR, while doing a fresh install, if one selects the "Shell" method of partitioning, one is given a rather terse and cryptic instruction to "mount the system at /mnt" (after all of the manual partitioning has been done), but I have no idea how to do this properly, and thus, I have only two options... I can either (a) live without 9.x entirely (and also without support for my shiny new USB 3.0 port card) or else (b) I can accept the horrendous performance penality that is likely to ensue when I allow "partedit" to place my requested partitions at badly mis-aligned locations on my new "Advanced Format" hard disk. Neither possibility is particularly appealing.
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