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Enhanced DR-DOS kernel and command interpreter ported to JWasm and OpenWatcom C
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Drive letters between FreeFDISK and the EDR kernel are inconsistent #80

Closed mateuszviste closed 3 months ago

mateuszviste commented 3 months ago

This is a subject that popped out in some discussions some time ago already, just confirming the issue here.

I have used FreeFDISK to partition a disk into two partitions as follows:

svar001

Then I rebooted and wanted to format the first partition -- but ultimately, I ended up formatting the second partition instead.

svar002

This might obviously confuse users and could lead to loose of data despite user's best intentions.

mateuszviste commented 3 months ago

closely related to #59

boeckmann commented 3 months ago

I could change Free FDISK so it tries to match the EDR kernel drive letter assignment if DR-DOS is detected.

mateuszviste commented 3 months ago

I could change Free FDISK so it tries to match the EDR kernel drive letter assignment if DR-DOS is detected.

I was thinking about a special FDISK build for EDR, but if this could be detected automatically then indeed that would be even better.

boeckmann commented 3 months ago

This is fixed by FDISK 1.3.16.