>Number: 154684
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: bin: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Improvements for pc-sysinstall
>to create GPT and other types of partitions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 11 15:10:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kris Moore
>Release: 9.0-Current
>Organization:
PC-BSD / iXsystems
>Environment:
FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT
>Description:
The included patch adds support to pc-sysinstall's create-part feature, to
create non MBR type partitions, such as GPT and others.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
diff -ruN usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager/create-part.sh
usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager/create-part.sh
--- usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager/create-part.sh 2011-01-27
10:26:03.659375118 -0500
+++ usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager/create-part.sh 2011-01-27
11:48:40.178393624 -0500
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
#
# $FreeBSD$
-# Query a disk for partitions and display them
+# Create partitions on a target disk
#############################
. ${PROGDIR}/backend/functions.sh
@@ -47,46 +47,40 @@
DISK="${1}"
MB="${2}"
+TYPE="${3}"
+STARTBLOCK="${4}"
TOTALBLOCKS="`expr $MB \* 2048`"
+# If no TYPE specified, default to MBR
+if [ -z "$TYPE" ] ; then TYPE="mbr" ; fi
-# Lets figure out what number this slice will be
-LASTSLICE="`fdisk -s /dev/${DISK} 2>/dev/null | grep -v ${DISK} | grep ':' |
tail -n 1 | cut -d ':' -f 1 | tr -s '\t' ' ' | tr -d ' '`"
+# Lets figure out what number this partition will be
+LASTSLICE="`gpart show $DISK | grep -v -e $DISK -e '\- free \-' -e '^$' | tail
-1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 4`"
if [ -z "${LASTSLICE}" ] ; then
LASTSLICE="1"
else
LASTSLICE="`expr $LASTSLICE + 1`"
fi
-if [ ${LASTSLICE} -gt "4" ] ; then
- echo "Error: FreeBSD MBR setups can only have a max of 4 slices"
- exit 1
-fi
-
-
SLICENUM="${LASTSLICE}"
-# Lets get the starting block
-if [ "${SLICENUM}" = "1" ] ; then
- STARTBLOCK="63"
-else
- # Lets figure out where the prior slice ends
- checkslice="`expr ${SLICENUM} - 1`"
-
- # Get starting block of this slice
- fdisk -s /dev/${DISK} | grep -v "${DISK}:" | grep "${checkslice}:" | tr -s "
" >${TMPDIR}/pfdisk
- pstartblock="`cat ${TMPDIR}/pfdisk | cut -d ' ' -f 3`"
- psize="`cat ${TMPDIR}/pfdisk | cut -d ' ' -f 4`"
- STARTBLOCK="`expr ${pstartblock} + ${psize}`"
+# Set a 4k Aligned start block if none specified
+if [ "${SLICENUM}" = "1" -a -z "$STARTBLOCK" ] ; then
+ STARTBLOCK="2016"
fi
-# If this is an empty disk, see if we need to create a new MBR scheme for it
+# If this is an empty disk, see if we need to create a new scheme for it
gpart show ${DISK} >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
if [ "$?" != "0" -a "${SLICENUM}" = "1" ] ; then
- gpart create -s mbr ${DISK}
+ gpart create -s ${TYPE} ${DISK}
+fi
+
+# If we have a starting block, use it
+if [ -z "$STARTBLOCK" ] ; then
+ sBLOCK="-b $STARTBLOCK"
fi
-gpart add -b ${STARTBLOCK} -s ${TOTALBLOCKS} -t freebsd -i ${SLICENUM} ${DISK}
+gpart add ${sBLOCK} -s ${TOTALBLOCKS} -t freebsd -i ${SLICENUM} ${DISK}
exit "$?"
diff -ruN usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.sh
usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.sh
--- usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.sh 2011-01-27
10:26:03.709380520 -0500
+++ usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.sh 2011-01-27
11:49:10.371138733 -0500
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
;;
# The user is wanting to create a new partition
- create-part) ${PARTMANAGERDIR}/create-part.sh "${2}" "${3}"
+ create-part) ${PARTMANAGERDIR}/create-part.sh "${2}" "${3}" "${4}" "${5}"
;;
# The user is wanting to delete an existing partition
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