Re: gpt's -s parameter

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:46:58PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
>      The meaning of the -s parameter can't be changed at this point
> since gpt(8) has been part of NetBSD since late 2006 and first
> appeared in NetBSD 4.0.  One solution I've been considering is to
> introduce a new -S parameter that would take a size in terms of
> bytes, and would calculate the appropriate number of sectors based
> on the device's sector size.  However, I'm wondering if having both
> -s and -S would cause confusion (the program wouldn't accept both).
> What are people's thoughts on this?


I think there is ample precedence for doing this - knowing what the
difference between -s and -S is what a man page is for.

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