[copying -committers]

On Monday, 28 February 2000 at  1:47:36 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

Do other BSDs have something similar?  We obviously have an
incompatibility here, and it would be nice to come to an agreement on
a standard syntax.  It would also be nice to be able to warn people
before performing such a destructive step, and allow recovery if you
do it before stopping the program.

Greg
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