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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? 
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:47:36 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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?

Warner


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