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From: Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 08:43:10 +0300
Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:01:00 +1200
> Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> 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?

regards
Marius