Re: [wishlist] end of disk parameter

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:19:51PM -0700, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > Is that what you meant?  Did you have any other ideas?
> 
> Perhaps when END is prefixed with '+' the value could indicate the size of the
> partition rather than the end boundary, e.g.
> 
>   resize 2 500 +2000
> 
> would mean a 2 GB partition starting @ 500 MB ? It would be a nice feature, 
> but
> the semantics of '-' and '+' wouldn't be consistent. Maybe there's a better
> way. fdisk's semantics are N is boundary and +N is size with no option to
> specify the boundary from the end.

Sounds reasonable I guess.  I'll think about it...

Maybe we need a more linguistic approach, like "start X length Y"?

Cheers,
Andrew