Subject: Re: an fdisk that supports extended partitions
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/2003 18:47:30
> I've fixed a few bugs:
>
> 1) Corrected defaults when creating a partition on an empty disk.
> 2) Handle gaps at the start of extended partitions in the same way
> as win98.
> 3) Correctly process changes in the size of extended partitions.
> 4) Change default 'size' so that the partition ends in the same place
> if the user changes the start position.
> (This still isn't ideal if the user moves the start into a different
> free area.)
>
> I've put the new .c file onto my web space, www.l8s.co.uk then
> netbsd/fdisk.
Thanks, I find the new fdisk really better. I still miss the ability to enter $
in place of size, meaning "till the end of the disk", as in disklabel
-i.
Bye Pavel