Subject: Re: an fdisk that supports extended partitions
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/2003 19:58:08
> I still miss the ability to enter $ in place of size,  meaning "till
> the end of the disk", as in disklabel -i.

The 'obvious' change is to avoid calculating the end address until
the start one has been entered.
Unfortunately the code just isn't structured that way :-)

There are enough edge conditions lurking as it is.

For instance what do you expect to happen if fdisk -f requests
that the start of the extended partition be moved?
And if it moves past one of the extended partitions?

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk