Re: Dropping old fdisk utilities
On 09/23/2017 03:12 AM, Mac User wrote:
> As just a typical user who wants things to work, I've been monitoring the
> discussion about mac-fdisk. I've been using pdisk on Mac OS for years,
> along with mac-fdisk on mac68k and powerpc GNU/Linux distributions.
A typical user uses parted these days, not an ancient tool that has been
unmaintained for effectively 10-15 years. parted is the standard tool
these days, not some ancient fork of Apple's fdisk/pdisk.
I don't understand why some people are so stubborn with their habits. I
mean, I kind of get that some people are too lazy to adopt to new tools
because it takes some extra time. But in this case, this isn't really an
argument, because parted is actually much easier to use, has a much more
comprehensive documentation and is actually used on almost every Linux
distribution out there.
Adrian
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