Re: Way to specify offset suggestion autoalignment multiple in disklabel(8)? (w.o. paper, pen and a 2:nd computer)

2018-04-16 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Tinker(t1...@protonmail.ch) on 2018.04.16 03:30:37 -0400: > Hi, > > 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. why? to whom?

Re: Way to specify offset suggestion autoalignment multiple in disklabel(8)? (w.o. paper, pen and a 2:nd computer)

2018-04-16 Thread Tinker
On April 16, 2018 4:07 PM, Stuart Henderson 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

Re: Way to specify offset suggestion autoalignment multiple in disklabel(8)? (w.o. paper, pen and a 2:nd computer)

2018-04-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-04-16, Tinker 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 o