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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:46:38AM -0600, David Young wrote:
  | It's useful sometimes for a privilegeless user to disklabel or fdisk
  | a file containing a disk image---a file was made by makefs, say. Here
  | are patches that make it possible. The disklabel patch is pretty simple:
  | detect that the target is a file and avoid certain steps.  Because fdisk
  | needs a disklabel to get started, my patch lets you give it a disktab
  | and disktype with -t and -T options.

I'd prefer that disklabel(8) took a specific option to use a regular
file to enable this behaviour; other disk related tools use '-F' for this.

As for fdisk; is there a way we can implement '-F' to enable the
"don't bother disklabeling" stuff, rather than the -t/-T stuff ?


  |=20
  | Please leave me on the To: line; I do not subscribe to tech-userlevel.

Cheers,
Luke.

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