Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

[Wes Peters]

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?

Take a hint from vinum(8) and make it 'fdisk --no-future'?

Capital letters are certainly further from the norm, and it would no longer
clash with the OpenBSD usage.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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