Re: Partitioning during installation

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:20:34AM -0500, Andrew Ball wrote:
>     As you will see below, the partition sizes change unexpectedly.

I am not sure what you did and I can not reproduce it in -current
nor with the official 9.1 ISO.

This could be a terminal emulation or curses bug - I tried with TERM
set to "xterm" and using urxvt as terminal emulator.

>        Size (sec)                            Filesystem
>        ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>    >a: 634880 (2678807)                    + /
>     b: 262144                                <swap>

 [ switch to cylinder ]

>        Size (cyl)                            Filesystem
>        ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>     a: 668 (2822)                          + /
>     b: 276                                   <swap>

Seems to be properly rounded (668 * 73 * 13 = 633932)

>    >i: Change input units (sectors/cylinders/MB/GB)

Not sure what you did here

>        Size (cyl)                            Filesystem
>        ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>    >a: 146                                   /
>     b: 276                                   <swap>

and how you got there:

>     a: 146                                   /
>    >b: 292                                   <swap>

or here:

>        Size (cyl)                            Filesystem
>        ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>     a: 18446744073709550791                  /
>     b: 292                                   <swap>

I can switch size units back and forth and it always seem to end up
with reasonable values.

Martin