From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 10 11: 7:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6D937B41D for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fBAJ7Di06796; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:07:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Matthew Dillon , Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: <20011210023828.15C963810@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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