On Thu, Oct 06, 2016, Erling Westenvik wrote: [I'm only replying because I ran into a problem in this area and posted a patch suggestion to the tech list; a different fix was applied after some discussion.]
> templates, I was a little surprised to find that disklabel(8) apparently > does not support specifying partition sizes givin in sectors, only in ... > or megabytes. But I got curious as to why templates cannot be specified > in sectors? Just a guess: maybe because nobody needed it (so far)? apply_unit() in src/sbin/disklabel/editor.c might be something you want to look at and provide a patch? If a developer considers it interesting/important enough, it might get into the tree.
