Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:26:54 -0400 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Marius Nuennerich" <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> Cc: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot Message-ID: <6eb82e0605161926y3ff4a1a3l8a369723cf7c3352@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol> References: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <4468FA1C.7040105@fubar.geek.nz> <20060516084310.05af8de4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516202529.1d725675@sol> <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol>
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On 5/16/06, Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006 23:04:00 +0300 > Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:29 +0200 > > Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > > 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 on= ly the > > > > > > slice size but also where it begins. Ideally this should be def= ined by > > > > > > three numbers: 'start sector', 'end sector' and 'size in sector= s'. > > > > > > Changing the 'size in sectors' should also change the 'end sect= or', 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 s= lices) > > > > > 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 th= ird > > > > 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. > > Sorry, I misread that. > > I just noticed the bsdinstaller (just like sysinstall) creates no > offset for the first bsd partition in a slice, whereas bsdlabel -w > does. >From bsdlabel(8): The first partition should start at offset 16, because the first 16 sectors are reserved for metadata. I think BSDInstaller should change to not create first slice at offset 0. Regards, Rong-En Fan
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