Re: proposal: remove automatic default selection from fdisk

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Andrew McGill wrote:
> 
> I'm proposing that fdisk always prompts for the partition number, but, as a 
> backward compatibility measure, both of these inputs should be treated in the 
> same way:
> 
> # Setting the type of the only partition to 0x0c :
> t
> c
> 
> # setting the type of the only partition to 0x0c :
> t
> 1
> c
> 
> 1 (and 2-4) are valid partition types, but they used infrequently, especially 
> in scripts.
> 

Not really.  And you're not limited to 1-4 for partition numbers.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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