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Re: I plan to remove fdisk from the next util-linux




	I also broke something with cfdisk that I was able to fix with
fdisk. (I think cfdisk couldn't read the partition table anymore.)

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, 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).
> 
> Bob
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G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
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