Re: proposal: remove automatic default selection from fdisk

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Karel Zak wrote:
> 
>  That sounds like an over-engineering. The fdisk(8) is __interactive__
>  application -- for non-interactive usage you have to use sfdisk or
>  parted.
> 

Unfortunately a lot of things use fdisk and feed stuff to stdin.

> 
>  We can add GPT support to fdisk in future. GPT supports 128
>  partitions :-)
> 

GPT support would be wonderful.

GPT supports an arbitrary number of partitions; just limited by the
amount of space that was set aside at first partitioning.

	-hpa

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

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