On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:43:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote: > What seems a little counter intuitive to me is: I would see sd0 as a > shortcut of /dev/sd0 for fdisk, but "fdisk /dev/sd0" does not work.
It's not, as miod pointed out. Is it something you tried to "deduce" on your own ? or some misinformation you found in a manpage/webpage somewhere ? if there is a typo in our documentation that actually says "fdisk /dev/sd0", we would like to know about it...