OpenBSD partitioning
In part 1, I already made a partition for every system I'm installing in this series. However, the OpenBSD parttion is a "disklabel" - a partition that has its own partitions!
The installer will list the computer's disks:
Available disks are: sd0 wd0 wd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] ?
Here we type "?" to see the sizes and BIOS names of every disk:
sd0: USB Flash Memory, PMAP serial.09306545ECA140003E6A (7.3G) wd0: CT1000MX500SSD1 (931.5G) wd1: SAMSUNG HD501LJ (465.0G)
As you can see, removable disks start with "sd" and fixed disks start with "wd". wd0 is my SSD here, so I'll choose it:
The installer shows the partition table:
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] wd0
Encrypt the root disk with a (p)assphrase or (k)eydisk? [no] no
Disk: wd0 geometry: 121601/255/63 (1953525168 sectors)
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
*0: 07 0 32 33 - 13054 75 13 [ 2048: 209715200 ] NTFS
1: 0C 13054 75 14 - 39162 160 30 [ 209717240: 419430400 ] FAT32 (LBA)
2: A6 39162 160 39 - 52216 203 19 [ 629147640: 209715200 ] OpenBSD
Use (W)hole disk, use the (O)penBSD area or (E)dit the MBR? [OpenBSD] o
We're doing a multi-boot setup, so we're not encrypting the whole disk with OpenBSD's encryption.
The installer detects that we made a partition for OpenBSD in part 1 - let's type "o" to use it. It will automatically generate a proposed layout:
The auto-allocated layout for wd0 is: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1.0G 629147648 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / b: 1.2G 631244000 swap c: 931.5G 0 unused d: 4.0G 633065216 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp e: 6.0G 642253792 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var f: 10.3G 654834624 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr g: 1.0G 676516768 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/X11R6 h: 14.3G 678613920 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/local i: 100.0G 2048 NTFS j: 200.0G 209717248 MSDOS k: 3.0G 700626304 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/src l: 6.0G 716542624 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/obj m: 52.3G 729125536 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /home Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout? [a] c
I think this layout has way too many partitions in the disklabel! Let's make our own layout by typing in "c". This launches the disklabel editor:
Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) wd0>