Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:22:54 -0700 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: gpart Message-ID: <20090518162253.GA78829@citylink.fud.org.nz>
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Hi,
I used gpart for the first time today and a few things came to mind.
- The -s option doesnt take a humanised size, such as 256M
- In a lot of cases the offset can be handled, ie
34 126090653 ad3 GPT (60G)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 41943040 2 freebsd-zfs (20G)
42352680 83738007 - free - (40G)
If I was to do 'gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ad3' then I would
expect the utility to search for 20971520 free sectors and place the
new partition at offset 42352680 automagically.
- I cant see how to use wildcard to take all the remaining space. This
would make scripting much easier as it wouldnt need to grok the
geometry first.
gpart create -s GPT ad3
gpart add -s 256M -t freebsd-ufs ad3
gpart add -s 2G -t freebsd-swap ad3
gpart add -s max -t freebsd-ufs ad3
cheers,
Andrew
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