Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:07:55 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Marc Frajola <marc@enginet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How about Changing fdisk/disklabel before 4.0-release Message-ID: <v0421011ab4e0925b5a8e@[128.113.24.47]> 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> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org>
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At 1:47 AM -0700 2/28/00, 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? If the '-e' parameter is only in 4.0, then I would definitely prefer to see it changed (one way or another) before 4.0 is released. Either change it to be '-I', or change it to be more of the "edit" function that openbsd has. My guess is that it'd be quicker to change it to -I for now, and add a -e later on. Is there any unix command where "-e" means "totally wipe out" something? (note that I dabble with both openbsd and freebsd systems, and it would be really painful if I typed '-e' on the wrong system!). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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