Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:46:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Marc Frajola <marc@enginet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? Message-ID: <20000228194613.X4601@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> References: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org>
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[copying -committers] On Monday, 28 February 2000 at 1:47:36 -0700, 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? Do other BSDs have something similar? We obviously have an incompatibility here, and it would be nice to come to an agreement on a standard syntax. It would also be nice to be able to warn people before performing such a destructive step, and allow recovery if you do it before stopping the program. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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