Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011210140216.4035N-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210023828.15C963810@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > (Matt places hands on face and slowly drags them down, with appropriate > > sound effects) > > Seriously though, I like the concept but I wonder if it would be better > query the user.. ie: something like: "(D)elete this partition or > (M)erge the space into parent?" > > Otherwise it becomes harder to delete /home, carve out some space for > something and recreate a new slightly smaller /home. I have to admit I prefer this behavior: on the initial read through of Matt's description, I said to myself "But what if I just wanted to delete the partition, not merge it into another?" With the D key defined as proposed, it would be a lot harder to do this. I'm all for saving keystrokes, but not if it makes something useful like that substantially more complicated (or counter-intuitive). On a related note, is it currently possible to look at the partition list and see which ones are auto-sized and might behave that way? Or alternatively, the output might read: Partition Mountpoint Desired size Actual size /dev/ad0s1e /home 50% (1.2GB) 1GB Something to give an indication of the behavior that will result from doing something to the adjacent partitions. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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