From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>, devel@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/make-gpt.sh: allow setting partition size
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:57:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5e9e0fa-5cdd-454b-b76e-4b104876149e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251128132227.243596-2-hi@alyssa.is>
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On 11/28/25 08:22, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> We want non-minimally-sized partitions to leave space for updates.
> All such partitions will also be labelled, so we can just add another
> optional field at the end.
>
> Since we don't parse partition specifications in sh, we can't keep a
> running total any more, so instead we just go through the table at the
> end and add up all the sizes, taking advantage of our knowledge that
> the size will always be the last thing in each line in our tables.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> Message-ID: <20251127174054.2056835-2-hi@alyssa.is>
> ---
> v2: fix conflicts after applying Demi's optimization, and avoid awk
> to sum partition sizes, taking inspiration from the same.
> v1: https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives/spectrum-devel/20251127174054.2056835-2-hi@alyssa.is/
>
> scripts/make-gpt.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
> scripts/sfdisk-field.awk | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/make-gpt.sh b/scripts/make-gpt.sh
> index 3cae441..cb19868 100755
> --- a/scripts/make-gpt.sh
> +++ b/scripts/make-gpt.sh
> @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
> #!/bin/sh -eu
> #
> -# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2023 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2023, 2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Unikie
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2+
> #
> -# usage: make-gpt.sh GPT_PATH PATH:PARTTYPE[:PARTUUID[:PARTLABEL]]...
> +# usage: make-gpt.sh GPT_PATH PATH:PARTTYPE[:PARTUUID[:PARTLABEL[:PARTMiB]]]...
>
> ONE_MiB=1048576
>
> @@ -33,21 +33,27 @@ scriptsDir="$(dirname "$0")"
> out="$1"
> shift
>
> -nl='
> -'
> -table="label: gpt"
> +table=$(for partition; do
> + awk -f "$scriptsDir/sfdisk-field.awk" \
> + -v partition="$partition" \
> + -v size="$(sizeMiB "${partition%%:*}")"
> +done)
$(sizeMiB) should be moved into a separate command. Shellcheck can
catch this if you enable SC2312.
> # Keep 1MiB free at the start, and 1MiB free at the end.
> -gptBytes=$((ONE_MiB * 2))
> -for partition; do
> - sizeMiB="$(sizeMiB "${partition%%:*}")"
> - table="$table${nl}size=${sizeMiB}MiB,$(awk -f "$scriptsDir/sfdisk-field.awk" -v partition="$partition")"
> - gptBytes="$((gptBytes + sizeMiB * ONE_MiB))"
> -done
> +gptMiB=2
> +while read -r partition; do
> + # Here we rely on sfdisk-field.awk always putting size last.
> + : $((gptMiB += ${partition##*=}))
> +done <<EOF
> +$table
> +EOF
Nit: should ${partition##*=} be in double quotes?
> rm -f "$out"
> -truncate -s "$gptBytes" "$out"
> +truncate -s "${gptMiB}M" "$out"
> +
> sfdisk --no-reread --no-tell-kernel "$out" <<EOF
> +label: gpt
> +sector-size: $ONE_MiB
> $table
> EOF
>
> diff --git a/scripts/sfdisk-field.awk b/scripts/sfdisk-field.awk
> index e13c86d..78b438e 100644
> --- a/scripts/sfdisk-field.awk
> +++ b/scripts/sfdisk-field.awk
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #!/usr/bin/awk -f
> #
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2+
> -# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022, 2024 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022, 2024-2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
>
> BEGIN {
> types["root.aarch64"] = "b921b045-1df0-41c3-af44-4c6f280d3fae"
> @@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ BEGIN {
> types["verity.aarch64"] = "df3300ce-d69f-4c92-978c-9bfb0f38d820"
> types["verity.x86_64"] = "2c7357ed-ebd2-46d9-aec1-23d437ec2bf5"
>
> - # Field #1 is the partition path, which make-gpt.sh will turn into
> - # the size field. Since it's handled elsewhere, we skip that
> - # first field.
> + # Field #1 is the partition path, which is read by make-gpt.sh
> + # but not relevant for running sfdisk, so skip it.
> skip=1
>
> - split("type uuid name", keys)
> + split("type uuid name size", keys)
> split(partition, fields, ":")
>
> arch = ENVIRON["ARCH"]
> @@ -31,8 +30,21 @@ BEGIN {
> if (keys[n - skip] == "type") {
> if (uuid = types[fields[n] "." arch])
> fields[n] = uuid
> + } else if (keys[n - skip] == "size") {
> + if (fields[n] < size) {
> + printf "%s MiB partition content is too big for %s MiB partition\n",
> + size, fields[n] > "/dev/stderr"
> + exit 1
> + }
> +
> + size = fields[n]
> + continue # Handled at the end.
> }
>
> printf "%s=%s,", keys[n - skip], fields[n]
> }
> +
> + # Always output a size field, either supplied in input or
> + # default value of the size variable.
> + printf "size=%s\n", size
> }
>
> base-commit: 1970f432152730ec19bf97a8db4613a591ee00be
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-28 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-28 13:22 [PATCH v2] scripts/make-gpt.sh: allow setting partition size Alyssa Ross
2025-11-28 20:57 ` Demi Marie Obenour [this message]
2025-11-28 21:14 ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-28 21:15 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-11-28 21:26 ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-28 21:31 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-11-28 21:35 ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-28 21:39 ` Demi Marie Obenour
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