Re: [Gptfdisk-general] GPT fdisk output feature request

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 03/22/2012 09:29 AM, David Liontooth wrote:
>
> Thanks for a fantastic program, and to Guillaume Delacour for the
> debian-mentors packages, which work great!
>
> I have a very minor request. The feedback for w runs like this:

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just made this change in my local code, 
and I expect to make a new release (as GPT fdisk 0.8.3) soon.

> Command (? for help): w
>
> Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE
> EXISTING
> PARTITIONS!!
>
> Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y
> OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT).
> The operation has completed successfully.
>
> Note that it does not mention the partition name; on a crowded system,
> this can make it hard to track. I'd like to see this instead:
>
> "Final checks complete. About to write GPT data to /dev/sdf. THIS WILL
> OVERWRITE EXISTING
> PARTITIONS!!"
>
> "OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdf."
>
> That way the user can track which drive was just partitioned.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>


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