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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:17 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please review: fdisk -e -> -I
Message-ID:  <20000303102917.D12352@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003022043.NAA17997@harmony.village.org>
References:  <200003022033.NAA17898@harmony.village.org> <200003022043.NAA17997@harmony.village.org>

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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
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