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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap
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> > and remove the 1 bias in fdisk.
> 
> Oooooh, this will confuse everybody who's already been slightly
> dealing with disk setups.  It's an arguably ugly, but long-standing
> tradition to number the (physical) sectors on each track starting at
> one.  ``Correcting'' this now and only in one of 20 million operating
> systems will violate the principle of least surprise.

Better to violate the principle of least astonishment with people who
can figure out what is going on.

Which is why the DOS partitions should be called paritions, etc..


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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