On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:55:34PM +0200, Francesco Cosoleto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/5/10 Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> These suffixes were accepted in previous fdisk versions but with
> >> a different meaning.
> >
> > ÂOh.. 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.
> >
> > Âpremature optimization
> >
> > ÂKb, kB, KiB, .... all this is mess, and provide more alternatives for
> > Âthe 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.
The message after the dialog is a good idea. (Note, see
size_to_human_string() in lib/strutils.c.)
> and 'K' lower-case removed or replaced with an error message?
All currently supported suffixes have to be supported for backward
compatibility and I don't think that we need any new suffixes.
Karel
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