Great, thanks. I was about to make a diff for the -T template section below that and change "and percentage of disk" to "and percentage of remaining space", but that certainly clarifies it.
Brian Conway On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 05:16:31PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 09:30:12AM -0600, Brian Conway wrote: >> >> > I'm hoping someone can enlighten me, as I think I'm misunderstanding >> > the man page. >> > >> > I'm using a simplified test case with a 12 GB disk and a template of >> > the following: >> > / 256M >> > swap 256M >> > /tmp 256M >> > /var 256M >> > /usr 5.5G-* 80% >> > /home 1G-* 20% >> > >> > Based on how I'm reading the man page, disklabel should first allocate >> > all the minimums, and then allocate the remaining free space evenly >> > between /usr and /home. It would first hit the 20% limit on /home >> >> nope, it will add 80% of the unallocated space to /usr and 20% to >> /home, neither of them has a maxium size. >> >> -Otto > > This difff explaines it a bit better in the man page, I believe, > > -Otto > > > Index: disklabel.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8,v > retrieving revision 1.117 > diff -u -p -r1.117 disklabel.8 > --- disklabel.8 16 Oct 2015 04:20:54 -0000 1.117 > +++ disklabel.8 21 Dec 2015 19:41:39 -0000 > @@ -505,9 +505,9 @@ and are not modified during the allocati > Disk size determines the set of partitions which are created. > Each partition is allocated space between a specified minimum > and maximum. > -Each partition is allocated its minimum and remaining space > -is split between the partitions up to their maximum allowed space, > -which is a fixed percentage. > +Initially, each partition is allocated its minimum and remaining space > +is split between the partitions according to the given percentages, > +up to their maximum allowed space. > Space left after all partitions have reached their maximum size > is left unallocated. > The sizes below are approximations,
