From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 02:26:56 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 1268216A413 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BB643D49 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id l8so61728nzf for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tOnTAYSBdHCrz+8ueo7eWToGxMWPEkirN5wkF77LPEgUAHXVq/JxQPT7IL+GkERPYmuuxqKQgDc4O/f5ppP3MWzZSo/DrJVlaQ64Po/05Y+2H1CgH2h0GFT6bDRqHbuySuzB3GDddoUK2laYRSb8+0jP4GyaO/6b4rCiFVcIfjE= Received: by 10.37.13.52 with SMTP id q52mr282923nzi; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.60.19 with HTTP; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0605161926y3ff4a1a3l8a369723cf7c3352@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:26:54 -0400 From: "Rong-en Fan" To: "Marius Nuennerich" In-Reply-To: <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: Rostislav Krasny , 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: Wed, 17 May 2006 02:26:56 -0000 On 5/16/06, Marius Nuennerich wrote: > 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 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