From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 8 00:18:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51171459 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:18:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823B8FC12 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F335081A for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:18:57 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:18:57 -0800 Message-ID: <14190.1354925937@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:33:04 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:18:58 -0000 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.