On April 16, 2018 4:07 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2018-04-16, Tinker t1...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > When in "disklabel -E" for instance in the OS installer, being able to > > specify that I want the partition offsets to be multiples of 2048 would > > be useful. > > > > Right now, when in "a" (add partition), i transcribe the suggested > > offset to another computer, on the other computer calculate its value > > rounded up to the next 2048 multiple, and then transcribe it back to > > the computer with the OpenBSD installer. > > > > It's fine as it is, all that's needed is a paper, a pen, and attention. > > > > Just wanted to check if when reading through > > http://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8 I missed something, or, if it's not > > there if anyone more knowledgeable than me would think it would be a > > useful option. > > You didn't miss anything, the only way to do this at the moment is by > hand (I start at 2048 for the 'a' partition then just make sure the size > is a multiple of 2048, then the offset takes care of itself). > I don't see much value to making it optional, doing this as standard > is a sane default for most systems.
Is your point that disklabel(8)'s multiple should be increased to 2048? (What I had on my mind when I wrote the email would be a command "* 2048" or similar, that would instruct disklabel what multiple i like the offset suggestions to autoalign to. I guess 2048 would be the very sanest default multiple also yes.) Thanks, Tinker
