From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 20:36:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C3616A436 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0D5B43D45 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:36:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 May 2006 20:36:50 -0000 Received: from pD9ECC4D1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO sol) [217.236.196.209] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 16 May 2006 22:36:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5707313 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:36:39 +0200 From: Marius Nuennerich To: Rostislav Krasny Message-ID: <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol> In-Reply-To: <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:06:25 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Turner Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:36:53 -0000 On Tue, 16 May 2006 23:04:00 +0300 Rostislav Krasny wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:29 +0200 > Marius Nuennerich wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 08:43:10 +0300 > > Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:01:00 +1200 > > > Andrew Turner 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? > > 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. regards Marius