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 > > "beginning block" argument. Most people don't use overlapping > > partitions, except in sparc land, and mac-fdisk probably won't let > > you anyway, so what's the dileo? If it was just a little bit more > > annoying I'd go change it myself. Time for a nap instead, I think. > > > > 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. the fm is here: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml fwiw mac-fdisk does mention the 500m 800k and such shortcuts for the length argument. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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