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OpenBSD 6.7 installation add (gpt) partition?
So I'm trying to install OpenBSD 6.7 (amd64) here. I think the last time I installed OpenBSD was 6.0 or something. Much has changed.
Anyway, I'm installing on a machine which has a few operating systems already, so the hard drive (gpt / guid) already has an EFI partition, and a few others. No problem, I'll just add another gpt partition for OpenBSD and let it use that. The install program dumps me into the fdisk program, which has "help", and even a manual. Great! Except that there doesn't seems to be an "add" (as in add partition) command in fdisk. Ok, let me try with the edit command then; I can say "edit 3" for example. But - the edit command think it can start with offset at the same place as the first existing partition - that's no good. I can use the print command to see existing partitions; but it only tells me where they start and the size, not where the last partition ends. Is there a way to add a partition without a calculator?
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I am not really sure, I have never needed a calculator to install OpenBsd, but I must admit I have not tried a "multi boot" install, I would how ever look at:
https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk and https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html Quote:
https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AU...ISK_ALLOCATION ================================================= In addition on Multi booting , the FAQ again: Quote:
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I just use gdisk (from a Linux distribution) to create a partition of type a600 to hold OpenBSD before loading the installer. It's a bit pathetic but I'm more familiar with that tool.
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That limitation does not apply to GUID partition tables, they can accommodate 128 partitions in the default configuration and that number can be increased.
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I don't think OpenBSD's fdisk(1) supports this, or does it?
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I feel stupid now, lol. For some odd reason when looking at the manpage I saw the '#' entry under the MBR example (which lists the four slot limitation) and somehow mixed it up with that of the GPT example 36 lines further down (which doesn't list any limitation). That's what you get for sloppily jumping around between browser windows and terminal workspaces.
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Since there isn't an "OpenBSD way" to do it, I simply used gpart from FreeBSD to create the partition, like so
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gpart add -t openbsd-data -s 60G da0
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