Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:36:40PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > > ~:^) One of those little things that just isn't annoying enough is
> > > that it could so easily supply reasonable defaults without you
> > > having to do the math yourself all the time, especially the
> >
> > There are aliases that you can use for the begining number and length.
> > The problem is that it doesn't try to tell you about those aliases at
> > all. That should be fixed.
>
> niether does x86 fdisk, but nobody actually calculates cylinders when
> partitioning thier disk, they use the +30m shortcuts, which they found
> by rtfm.
Ar, x86 fdisk supplies you with sensible if unimaginative defaults,
so no aliases are needed, and neither is any rtfm, either. Truely
an fdisk for the masses. ~:^)
a
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