Hi,
2011/5/10 Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> These suffixes were accepted in previous fdisk versions but with
>> a different meaning.
>
> Oh.. then it seems like a bad idea to apply this patch.
>
>> Presumably some users are inclined not to use shift key here even if
>> this isn't the expected way to write these units.
>
> premature optimization
>
> Kb, kB, KiB, .... all this is mess, and provide more alternatives for
> the mess is only bigger mess.
Do you think it would be clearer if fdisk prints a message after the
dialog, something like:
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-125045423, default 125045423): +40G
A partition of 40 GiB is set.
and 'K' lower-case removed or replaced with an error message?
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