From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 28 13: 8:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE70937B957; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA156286; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:07:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> References: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:07:55 -0500 To: Warner Losh , Greg Lehey From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: How about Changing fdisk/disklabel before 4.0-release Cc: Doug White , Marc Frajola , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:47 AM -0700 2/28/00, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: >: fdisk -e is doubly dangerous. OpenBSD uses -e to mean "edit the >: label". In FreeBSD, it's more like "eradicate the label". > >Personally, I'd like to see it changed from -e to -I. Since it is >only in 4.0, this shouldn't cause too many problems. > >Comments? If the '-e' parameter is only in 4.0, then I would definitely prefer to see it changed (one way or another) before 4.0 is released. Either change it to be '-I', or change it to be more of the "edit" function that openbsd has. My guess is that it'd be quicker to change it to -I for now, and add a -e later on. Is there any unix command where "-e" means "totally wipe out" something? (note that I dabble with both openbsd and freebsd systems, and it would be really painful if I typed '-e' on the wrong system!). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message