"Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czark...@gmail.com> writes: >On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:55 +0100, Fredrik Staxeng wrote: >> "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czark...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >So you state that the fact that "if one chooses to use the whole disk, >> >the whole disk is used" needs further documentation? >> >> Once upon a time, mkfs used to make a 10-second pause before starting. >> That's the way you do it. > >That is an answer to the question "How?" (actually a bad one, as if the >user didn't read messages before hitting [Enter], he probably won't do >it after doing so), while my statement implied more of "Why?" you didn't >address at all.
I jumped into the middle here, I know. I think the 10-second delay is a brilliant solution. Much better than an "are you sure?" question. I think that there is a large probability that the user will spend that time reading the message, and consider whether he really wants to do it. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: s...@hcqngr.hh.fr This is all you need to know about vi: ESC : q ! RET
