From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 28 1:16:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352E537B551; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA08660; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:46:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:46:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: Doug White , Marc Frajola , 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> References: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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