dislabel64 horribly broken

Fri Oct 2 06:16:08 PDT 2009

disklabel64 is a prime example for unintuitive behavior:

* it requires an arbitrary 4KB aligment on sizes and offset
* size aligments seem to be enforced directly, but offset alignments are 
not.  offsets just show up as "ILLEGAL" when re-editing the label.  no 
complaint before
* automatic sizing using "*" does not work:

d: * * HAMMER

but then:
partition d: size out of bounds (4825292800)
the size is completely off, roughly by a factor of 10(!)

I had to do:

d: 4 * HAMMER

and then re-edit to make it read

d: * 4712200 HAMMER

* there is no way to change the display block size
* there is no way to specify sector counts or byte counts in size/offset
--
  <3 the future  +++  RENT this banner advert  +++   ASCII Ribbon   /"\
  rock the past  +++  space for low CHF NOW!1  +++     Campaign     \ /
Party Enjoy Relax   |   http://dragonflybsd.org      Against  HTML   \
Dude 2c 2 the max   !   http://golden-apple.biz       Mail + News   / \