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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2011-05-02 11:30:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2011-05-03 19:53:15 -0700 |
| commit | b6871cf68a0b32f191d864aac34e6622970a828a (patch) | |
| tree | b7d3514ff137f0a3d3609507310f347a79e66dce /scripts/install-system | |
| parent | ae552cf567b52888f14fb2de551328c88bf9471f (diff) | |
| download | vyatta-cfg-system-b6871cf68a0b32f191d864aac34e6622970a828a.tar.gz vyatta-cfg-system-b6871cf68a0b32f191d864aac34e6622970a828a.zip | |
Adjust root partition offset based on disk size
On tiny disks, then it doesn't make sense to waste space by offsetting
root partition. On big disks, it doesn't hurt and it allows for running
on SSD.
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/install-system')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/install-system | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-system b/scripts/install-system index 4d712ee7..278e77dc 100755 --- a/scripts/install-system +++ b/scripts/install-system @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ PARTITION='' # default file system type ROOT_FSTYPE="ext3" -# start of root partition (0% is magic to tell parted to align) -ROOT_OFFSET="0%" +# start of root partition (64 sectors == 32K bytes) +ROOT_OFFSET="64S" # Process ID of this script for the lame marketing spinner SPID=$$ @@ -1267,6 +1267,13 @@ setup_method_auto() { while [ $ROOT_MIN -gt $ROOT_PARTITION_SIZE ]; do # Get the size of the drive size=$(get_drive_size $INSTALL_DRIVE) + + # If drive is big, leave more space 512K bytes (1024 sectors) + # this is better for SSD + if (( $size > 10000 )); then + ROOT_OFFSET="1024S" + fi + echo -n "How big of a root partition should I create? ($ROOT_MIN"MB" - $size"MB") [$size]MB: " response=$(get_response "$size") # TODO: need to have better error checking on this value |