On 2011/05/21 22:01, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> it is already possible to resize auto alloctaed labels using the R
> command in disklabel. But a problem quite a few persons mentioned is
> that the R command only takes a relative size currently. This changes
> that to allow for both absolute and relative size changes. 

nice, I like this :-)  OK sthen@.

> (One thing that's needed is a smarter rounding to 4k boundaries, if
> you work in units of M or G this works all out by itself, but above
> you can see that the partitions after /var end up on a non-4k boundary
> due to the relative 70% of free space change. Luckily this doesn't
> matter at all for most disks)

fwiw, all new desktop/notebook HD platforms produced after 1/1/2011
(that's 1/1/2011 for USA folks with their strange date format) are
supposed to be using 4K sectors.

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