On 2009/07/16 16:43, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi Theo and tech@, > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:42:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z? With 2T disks > > > out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones. > > > > I could make it 32 partitions, but utterly break backwards compatibility > > with previous releases... or accept that the current situation covers > > 99.99% of usage cases. > > Good work on the new installer improvements. I especially like the > initial user creation, as its the first thing I used to do on a new > system. > > I just wacked in a large (by my standards) FCAL disk into my Sun; it is > 136GB in size. > > The installer's auto-layout wanted to make relatively small root and > /usr partitions (I'm assuming the minimums). Could be nice if the slice > sizes "scaled up" across larger disks? Perhaps based upon a percentage > of the total disk available? > > Just a minor thought really.
they do, up to a limit. see the space_allocation struct's in disklabel/editor.c
