Theo de Raadt wrote:
There is one thing that some people out there could work on. Noone
in our group is currently working on it, and it would be nice.
- A very carefully designed improvement/replacement to disklabel -E
that can sub-partition more automatically.
Something like:
disklabel sd0 -p labelletter,start,end,mountpoint
disklabel sd0 -p a,0,5G,/
Or are you talking about something completely different with sub-partitions?
Another thought I've had on this thread is to give the user a
default/sane partitioning option? Although, the definition of what is
sane default partitioning is a topic that can be debated until the
universe grows cold.
- Might be nice if it can handle multiple disks correctly, and if it was
more aware of the consequences of partitions mounted inside each
other.
I've gotta play with this to understand the problem better.
- No existing features that disklabel -E has may be deleted. People
use them.
It is not easy to do right, but bad hacks won't qualify for this.
Do back hacks qualify anywhere? :)
