From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:41116 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754890AbaGNPHz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:07:55 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCEF20EC1 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1405350470.21924.141447857.78268FC5@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Benno Schulenberg To: "Util-Linux" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: some comments about the new cfdisk Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:07:50 +0200 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Running cfdisk without an argument no longer works - it just blurts out the usage text, instead of picking the first and only hard drive in the system. When exiting from cfdisk without having changed anything and without having written the table to disk, it still writes to standard output "Syncing disks." (with a missing newline). To a novice that will be an alarming message. I think that when the user did not ask to write anything to disk, cfdisk should not be syncing disks, there is no need to, or at least it should not show that message. When in the "Select partition type" submenu, it is not possible to exit from there with Esc. Hitting ^C instead kills the entire cfdisk, which is kind of surprising and undesirable: any already made changes would be lost. I have two megabytes of free space at the tail of the disk. If with the old cfdisk I delete the last partition, it will create a single expanse of free space. But with the new cfdisk it will then have two free spaces: >> `-Free space 282779648 312576704 29797057 14.2G Free space 312578048 312581807 3760 1.9M It appears to be impossible to reuse that tailing free space. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web