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02-18-2008, 08:32 AM
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 fdisk quit/abort/exit fdisk has 3 full ways to exit interactive mode: exit, quit and abort. I always confuse the first two and the only difference between the second is that one quits completely, and the other just steps out a level when editing extended partitions (which I've never had much need for, and it seems somewhat depraved to have more than 1 level of extended partitions anyway). So my question is: is a concious reason why there are 3 distinct commands? I think it would be better to have something like "quit", which prompts "Do you want to write MBR? [yes|no|cancel]" unless you give it "y" to force it to write, "n" to not write, "f" to force it to write all MBRs back down all levels currently selected, or "a" to abort, discarding all changes. so: quit -> quit y exit -> quit n repeated quits -> quit f abort -> quit a for "->" = "becomes" This makes it difficult to mess up a MBR if you aren't careful (or is that part of the design?), and is only 2 characters more typing if you insist on speeding through fdisk. If there's no objection, I'll go ahead and make a diff and submit it for review. -Nick      |
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