On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:43:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote:
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> What seems a little counter intuitive to me is: I would see sd0 as a
> shortcut of /dev/sd0 for fdisk, but "fdisk /dev/sd0" does not work.

It's not, as miod pointed out.

Is it something you tried to "deduce" on your own ? or some misinformation
you found in a manpage/webpage somewhere ? if there is a typo in our
documentation that actually says "fdisk /dev/sd0", we would like to know
about it...