Re: I plan to remove fdisk from the next util-linux
On Mon, March 30 1998, Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> wrote:
|fdisk is a buggy unmaintained program. It doesn't make sense for us
|to include a program with bugs that make it dangerous. cfdisk and
|sfdisk are both much more reliable.
I'm aware that things are fluid and may change rapidly, but my
personal experience indicated that every time I ran cfdisk (mainly
during installation of Debian) cfdisk screwed things up and I had to
run fdisk to fix them. Is there a consensus about the
relative usability of the various fdisk versions?
|Ideally somebody should write a curses front end to sfdisk, and we can
|get rid of cfdisk as well. It is the best of the three but isn't
|really meant for direct use to repartition.
Or make it even modular enough to support both slang and a gtk-based
gui?
Cheers,
--Amos
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