From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:39:30 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fdisk: add -c option (switch off DOS mode)
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fdisk: add -c option (switch off DOS mode)

 * add -c to allows to switch off DOS mode from command line

 * recommend sectors (command 'u' or option -u)

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 2d93f1f8..367837d9 100644
--- a/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 fdisk \- Partition table manipulator for Linux
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B fdisk
-.RB [ \-u ]
+.RB [ \-uc ]
 .RB [ \-b
 .IR sectorsize ]
 .RB [ \-C
@@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ to override the kernel's ideas.)
 .BI \-h
 Print help and then exit.
 .TP
+.BI \-c
+Switch off DOS-compatible mode. (Recommended)
+.TP
 .BI "\-C " cyls
 Specify the number of cylinders of the disk.
 I have no idea why anybody would want to do so.
diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.c b/fdisk/fdisk.c
index 55caa0c2..b752d9b9 100644
--- a/fdisk/fdisk.c
+++ b/fdisk/fdisk.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ void fatal(enum failure why) {
 " fdisk -s <partition>      give partition size(s) in blocks\n"
 "\nOptions:\n"
 " -b <size>                 sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)\n"
+" -c                        switch off DOS-compatible mode\n"
 " -h                        print help\n"
 " -u <size>                 give sizes in sectors instead of cylinders\n"
 " -v                        print version\n"
@@ -794,7 +795,12 @@ warn_alignment(void) {
 "         sectors (command 'u').\n"));
 		else
 			fprintf(stderr, ".\n");
-	}
+
+	 } else if (display_in_cyl_units)
+		fprintf(stderr, _("\n"
+"WARNING: cylinders as display units are deprecated. Use command 'u' to\n"
+"         change units to sectors.\n"));
+
 }
 
 static void
@@ -2857,7 +2863,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 	bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	textdomain(PACKAGE);
 
-	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "b:C:hH:lsS:uvV")) != -1) {
+	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "b:cC:hH:lsS:uvV")) != -1) {
 		switch (c) {
 		case 'b':
 			/* Ugly: this sector size is really per device,
@@ -2874,6 +2880,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		case 'C':
 			user_cylinders = atoi(optarg);
 			break;
+		case 'c':
+			dos_compatible_flag = 0;
+			break;
 		case 'h':
 			fatal(help);
 			break;