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
