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Subject: Re: svn commit: r195817 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
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Alexander Motin wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> Author: cperciva
>> Date: Wed Jul 22 03:50:54 2009
>> New Revision: 195817
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195817
>>
>> Log:
>>   Remove the "dedicated disk mode" partitioning option from sysinstall, in
>>   both the disk partitioning screen (the 'F' key) and via install.cfg (the
>>   VAR_DEDICATED_DISK option).  This functionality is currently broken in 8.x
>>   due to libdisk and geom generating different partition names; this commit
>>   merely acts to help steer users away from the breakage.
>>   
>>   Submitted by:	randi
>>   Approved by:	re (kensmith)
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c
> 
> Is there any other way to not align FS block to the ugly legacy 63
> sectors per track boundary with sysinstall now? I think RAIDs won't be
> happy. May be it would be better to fix it?
> 

I typically tell people to align the first fdisk slice to sector 256 
instead of 63.  That covers most of the common RAID stripe sizes.  I 
leave it up to someone with more courage than me to code that into 
sysinstall.

Scott