Hi. I'm trying to add a 'block storage' disk to a an OpenBSD 6.1 VM in the cloud.
I was able to use fdisk to write an MBR, but I can't seem to get disklabel to simply allocate the entire disk (regardless of it's size) to one partition without going through the editor. I checked /etc/disktype as per the man pages, but it only seems to have very specific / arcane definitions, and I'd like a 'catch all' solution that simply allocates all storage to one partition. I simply want to create a single partition encompassing all of the available space. I've searched the web, plus read searched the last 11k+ messages on misc@ -- but I can't seem to find any examples of defining a disk with disklabel non-interactively. Can someone please provide some examples of a disklabel command that creates a partition non-interactively? (For bonus points, a list of examples of the -w command would be great for future searchers / readers.) Thanks. For the record, I options like: > # disklabel -w sd1 ffs > disklabel: unknown disk type: ffs > # disklabel -w sd1 floppy > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink > # disklabel -w sd1 hd > disklabel: unknown disk type: hd > # disklabel -w sd1 sd > disklabel: unknown disk type: sd > # disklabel -w sd1 SCSI > disklabel: unknown disk type: SCSI > # disklabel -w sd1 'disk' > disklabel: unknown disk type: disk > # disklabel -w sd1 0xA6 > disklabel: unknown disk type: 0xA6 > # disklabel -w sd1 A6 > disklabel: unknown disk type: A6 >
