[RFC] auto-alignment partitions with gpart

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

Hi,

The following patch adds to gpart(8) ability automatically adjust
partition offset and size to given alignment.
http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/gpart_align.diff

Example:
# gpart create -s gpt md0
md0 created
# gpart show md0
=>    34  409533  md0  GPT  (200M)
      34  409533       - free -  (200M)

# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 128k -a 4k md0
md0p1 added
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 60m -a 4k md0
md0p2 added
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k md0
md0p3 added
# gpart show md0
=>    34  409533  md0  GPT  (200M)
      34       6       - free -  (3.0K)
      40     256    1  freebsd-boot  (128K)
     296  122880    2  freebsd-ufs  (60M)
  123176  286384    3  freebsd-ufs  (139M)
  409560       7       - free -  (3.5K)

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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