From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 28 17:49: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D37137B564; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id RAA09232; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:47:15 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA11202; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:47:14 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id SAA24414; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:47:05 -0700 Message-ID: <38BB26E4.1717F485@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:54:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Greg Lehey , Doug White , Marc Frajola , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? References: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message