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To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: fdisk changes, anyone? 
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:50:26 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>      I've just mangled fdisk such that partitioning information can now
> be specified via an optional config file.  I've been needing a way to
> partition a disk from a script (without using expect), and so I mangled
> fdisk to do just that.  I want to write a perl script for adding SCSI
> disks, and a programmatic fdisk was the only piece missing.  An example
> config file is:

Wouldn't it be more flexible to add this as command-line parsing
for fdisk?  I like the idea, but making it use a config file means
that anything driving fdisk programmatically needs to use a temp
file, rather than simply forming a complex fdisk commmand and
passing it to system().

					Jordan