On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 at 10:52, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > > I'm trying to use <<disklabel -A -T ...>> to auto partition a disk
> > > with most of the disk assigned to / but also with some swap.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > /       1g-*    100%
> > swap    1g      0%
> 
> That worked:
> 
> [root@openbsd root]# disklabel sd0
> ...
> #                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:         18874240               64  4.2BSD   2048 16384 12960 # /
>   b:          2097152         18874304    swap                    # none
>   c:         20971520                0  unused
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Can I suggest adding this as an example to disklabel(8).  I suspect
> assigning the entire disk to / is a common scenario, and would help
> clarify how * and % interact.

That is a bad advice. Using single / is just bad habit and does not allow
to limit mountpoints with nodev, nosuid or wxallowed. For disks in the 10G
space I would make sure that /var, /tmp, /usr, /home are different
partitions.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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