Re: pdisk vs pdisk.8
Re: pdisk vs pdisk.8
- Subject: Re: pdisk vs pdisk.8
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:00:20 +0200
Dan Markarian wrote:
Hi Walt,
It is in alignment on Tiger.
It is not in alignment on Panther.
Not so fast, it is more complicated. 'pdisk' was always two things
rolled in one, namely
1. an interactive utility similar to pdisk on linux
2. a non-interactive command specific to the Mac that takes commands
like -createPartition or -dump
The whole is complicated by the fact that the interactive utility can be
used non-interactively, too, so you can equivalently
say
pdisk -l /dev/rdisk1 (this is 1 and didn't work on pre-Tiger OSX's)
or
pdisk /dev/rdisk1 -dump (this is 2)
The documentation never explained both of these and still doesn't in
Tiger. "man pdisk" only talks about 1 and "pdisk -h" only talks about 2.
In addition there were bugs in both versions of the documentation.
Perhaps what you call "alignment" means that there are fewer bugs in the
Tiger documentation? In any case, "man pdisk" and "pdisk -h" are still
talking about different things.
--
Martin
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