Re: i386/563: bug report: bugs/interface problems within fdisk

[Julian Fondren <julian@imaji.net>]

The following reply was made to PR i386/563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Fondren <julian@imaji.net>
To: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/563: bug report: bugs/interface problems within fdisk 
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:11:03 -0500 (CDT)

 Oh, I wasn't aware that unused means that it takes no space. Why must it
 exist? In fdisk I set it's size to 0, and it does not appear to exist
 now.
 
 
 On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Todd C. Miller wrote:
 
 > No, you should not be able to delete 'c'.  That partition *must* exist.
 > It is marked as "unused" by default and so takes up no space.
 > In 2.4 the disklabel editor will be a bit better about getting
 > free space correct; right now it is possible to confuse it.
 > 
 >  - todd