On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:55:24PM +0200, Andrew McGill wrote:
> On Sunday 29 March 2009 01:43:35 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Any comments? Is this going to break someone's favourite USB stick
> > > formatter?
> > Almost certainly. And yes, I agree this is a bug. I've found it
> > hideously annoying from day 1.
> Let's fix it!
I agree.
The second problem is that we don't have default values for
all prompts, my suggestion is add ", default <n>" to all prompts:
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4, default 4): <---
when I have 4 partitions. The same for 'n'ew:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): <---
when I have unpartitioned disk.
> We can hack it to work both ways.
That sounds like an over-engineering. The fdisk(8) is __interactive__
application -- for non-interactive usage you have to use sfdisk or
parted.
> Command (m for help): t
> Partition number (1-4): 83 <=== Actually a partition type
> DEPRECATED BEHAVIOUR! THAT'S NOT A PARTITION
We can add GPT support to fdisk in future. GPT supports 128
partitions :-)
Karel
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