From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 2 15:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B6837B52A; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA12670; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: fdisk -e -> -I Message-ID: <20000303102917.D12352@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200003022033.NAA17898@harmony.village.org> <200003022043.NAA17997@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200003022043.NAA17997@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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 13:43:17 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200003022033.NAA17898@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: >> Given that OpenBSD had the -e flag to fdisk first, and that it means >> edit there and that disklabel -e means edit, I'd like to apply the >> following patch to -current before it becomes 4.0. If we wait, we'll >> have compatibility problems. Right now it is too easy to shoot >> yourself in the foot with this. >> >> When this was hashed out here, the idea was met with wide spread >> support, even fiven the advanced nature of the freeze. I take that >> support to mean that this is something that would be a good idea to do >> for 4.0. >> >> Comments? > > I hate to follow up my own post. It would appear that -e was added > before 3.3R went out the door. Given that, I think the patch should > look more like the following: I'm still in favour. It's probably worth mentioning the difference in the man page. 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-current" in the body of the message