Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:56:03 -0700 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/84705: fdisk(8) program warning about sector number is misleading Message-ID: <87oe87i2gs.e87@mail.opusnet.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200508091500.j79F0VAl024030@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 84705
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: fdisk(8) program warning about sector number is misleading
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 09 15:00:31 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gary W. Swearingen
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
This fdisk output:
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
might be true but it's meant to help users who are about
to enter sector numbers, it's confusing at best.
The "start" sector of a partition is zero-based.
The "beg" and "end" sectors of partition are one-based.
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
Change warning to:
WARNING: sector numbering is inconsistent
or just remove warning
and/or fix each sector number prompt to include something
like "(0<=)" or "(1<=)".
Or do the first and leave PR open.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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