Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 11/09/11 20:20, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > Where did you get a version of cfdisk that is installable on normal
> > Debian system?
>
> Umm, it is on my old lenny box and it is on my new squeeze box. I didn't
> do anything special to install it. Most installs that I do are minimal
> base installs to start with.
Thanks for that. It's on my Lenny and Squeeze boxes too.... as part of 
util-linux
My mistake - I just did a dpkg --get-selections, apt-cache search and:-
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cfdisk&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
which is where I got the udeb bit from, and the link to the:-
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cfdisk-udeb
which gave the "Warning: This package is intended for the use in 
building debian-installer images only. Do not install it on a normal 
Debian system."


Does cfdisk do a better job of handling 4K sectors than fdisk - I was 
unable to find anything to that effect??

(again, my preference is parted) - the use cfdisk because fdisk + GPD = 
problem was not my post (and the OP was not using GPD)

Cheers

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