Subject: Re: an fdisk that supports extended partitions
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/2003 11:47:13
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

[PC: Ah, I see. If I enter 0 as the start offset, it is taken relative to the
[PC: end of previous partition, not to the start of  the disk. This confused
[PC: me first.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if disklabel could provide some indication
that it is doing this, i.e.

	i = getinput(":", chaining?
	    "Offset from previous partition": "Start offset", def, line);

FWIW, I, too, would like to see partitions acceptable as start positions.

[PC: Thanks	Pavel



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