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| author | Francesco Cosoleto | 2011-08-17 00:19:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-08-30 10:54:37 +0200 |
| commit | 9777759ad67014273a1499fe4c55544434157eab (patch) | |
| tree | 85cbeb5725695c011deb7916aca10d361d8e8479 | |
| parent | fdisk: print partition deleted message (diff) | |
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fdisk: print welcome message
This adds a welcome message with util-linux version number, information
about fdisk behaviour that doesn't write to disk after a command (unlike
gparted) and a warning about possible data loss.
The message appears just before the first command prompt.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fdisk/fdisk.c | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fdisk/fdisksunlabel.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.c b/fdisk/fdisk.c index d3fc20010..1c1f49211 100644 --- a/fdisk/fdisk.c +++ b/fdisk/fdisk.c @@ -932,11 +932,7 @@ static void create_doslabel(void) { unsigned int id = get_random_id(); - fprintf(stderr, - _("Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x%08x.\n" - "Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.\n" - "After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.\n\n"), - id); + fprintf(stderr, _("Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x%08x.\n"), id); sun_nolabel(); /* otherwise always recognised as sun */ sgi_nolabel(); /* otherwise always recognised as sgi */ disklabel = DOS_LABEL; @@ -3093,6 +3089,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) { disklabel = DOS_LABEL; } + fprintf(stderr, _("Welcome to fdisk (%s).\n\n" + "Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.\n" + "Be careful before using the write command.\n"), PACKAGE_STRING); + while (1) { putchar('\n'); c = tolower(read_char(_("Command (m for help): "))); diff --git a/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c b/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c index 359590916..091902ab0 100644 --- a/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c +++ b/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c @@ -698,9 +698,7 @@ create_sgilabel(void) sec_fac = sector_size / 512; /* determine the sector factor */ fprintf(stderr, - _("Building a new SGI disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,\n" - "until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous\n" - "content will be unrecoverably lost.\n\n")); + _("Building a new SGI disklabel.\n")); other_endian = (BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN); diff --git a/fdisk/fdisksunlabel.c b/fdisk/fdisksunlabel.c index 7d3aa09e1..80408dd10 100644 --- a/fdisk/fdisksunlabel.c +++ b/fdisk/fdisksunlabel.c @@ -189,9 +189,7 @@ void create_sunlabel(void) int res; fprintf(stderr, - _("Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,\n" - "until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous\n" - "content won't be recoverable.\n\n")); + _("Building a new Sun disklabel.\n")); #if BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN other_endian = 1; #else |