Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:54:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Marc Frajola <marc@enginet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? Message-ID: <38BB26E4.1717F485@softweyr.com> References: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org>
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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?
Take a hint from vinum(8) and make it 'fdisk --no-future'?
Capital letters are certainly further from the norm, and it would no longer
clash with the OpenBSD usage.
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