Re: I plan to remove fdisk from the next util-linux
sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer) wrote on 30.03.98 in <[🔎] 9803301503.AA29916@sun10.sep.bnl.gov.sep>:
> Bob Hilliard wrote:
> >
> > Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > My single experience with cfdisk was similar to this. It was so
> > long ago that I can't remember the details of the problems. I have
> > happily used fdisk ever since, without any problems. I have used some
> > pretty complex partitioning setups (ten partitions on /dev/hda at the
> > moment).
>
> I've also had a problem partitioning new drives with cfdisk. I have
> to use fdisk to write the initial table, then cfdisk runs OK..
Well, I once sent Guy a bug report that, while fdisk worked pretty well
with large disks, cfdisk didn't have the same fixes. It took some time to
get those fixes right (I think Guy first misunderstood them).
It's unclear to me why he prefers cfdisk; I'd have expected the opposite.
MfG Kai
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