On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems > > care about geometry and those that don't. > > Granted. Perhaps we just need to tone it down a bit then. On my > system the warning appears when you first enter the fdisk editor, and > then every time you move the cursor it reappears. It claims that it > is selecting a more sensible setting, but even so it still throws up > loads of warnings. Perhaps it only needs to be displayed once, or > maybe the 'make up a suggested geometry setting' code is broken on > modern systems.
Hmm that does seem very aggressive (and broken). I had a look at the code and it should only print it each time you enter the fdisk screen. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
