Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/1686: sysinstall should allow partition size change before newfs Message-ID: <199609280030.RAA21186@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/1686; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: pst@jnx.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1686: sysinstall should allow partition size change before newfs Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:28:03 -0700 > However, if you disagree with *any* setting, there is no easy way to just > modify the size distribution of the partitions. Right, because libdisk doesn't support the concept of "expand" or "shrink" for chunks, and to do it one level up would essentially require deleting and recreating the following partition or even collapsing it entirely (and moving on to the next victim) in cases where it's purely impossible to expand a chunk otherwise. Hmmmm. I guess that wouldn't be *too* bad, though I'm sure there are some error cases to look for. > Please make sure we can do this in son-of-sysinstall OK. Designing this in from the beginning may be a little easier, especially as the lead time for setup (s-o-s) is long enough to give me a chance to work on Poul - I think this should be a libdisk feature, you see. :-) Jordan
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