On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As an OpenBSD hobby user, I really appreciate your new installer and your
> automatic disklabel feature it is of GREAT help. I'm not very comfortable
> with fdisk and disklabel so this is a really welcomed feature and aid.
>
> Though, I'm missing 1 disklabel, the /altroot label, as it helped me several
> times in the past. Is there any reason why you omit this label creation?
>
> Do you think it could be added in the future to the automatic label creation
> or may be adding it after f.ex. answering a question (do you want an /altroot
> blah blah ...?) ?
>
> I know it should not be considered as a standard backup solution, but it
> still
> is a nice help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Didier
The goal of the automatic disklabel is to get a reasonable layout for
one-disk setups. Anything beyond that is out of scope for the moment.
I'm working on code to tweak the sizes of the auto label, but that's
for the next release anyway, and still targets one-disk setups.
-Otto
