Bug#29153: Bug#31607: cfdisk reported to not work on 'factory clean', unpartitioned drives
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Package: util-linux
>
> There are reports that cfdisk indeed does not do well on drives with
> no partition table yet created at all. This is different from just
> having no partitions. Although I'm not sure off the bat how to
> create this condition (I think you can use 'fmthard' in solaris).
Both fdisk and cfdisk accept the '-z' option with creates a new empty
partition table. Is this what you need?
(NB: Could you send me the manpage of Solaris' fmthard? I don't any any
Solaris box around)
Cordialement,
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