On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote: > The man page for fdisk matches the actual OS. There is no typo. > > On the other hand, IMHO, a system should allow its user's reasonable > assumption. It would be a headache for everyone if we have to memorize > the exact syntax for every single command.
I will challenge your notion of "reasonable assumption". Remembering fdisk sd0 is not hard. Trying to figure out what the full device name is (and failing, in this case) is just an example of the old expression: `give someone just enough rope to hang themselves with'.