Re: I plan to remove fdisk from the next util-linux
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Mark Baker wrote:
: On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 03:58:20PM +0400, Amos Shapira 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.
:
: I used cfdisk on both my drives, and have used it when setting up a couple
: of systems for friends. In all cases it worked flawlessly. Both my drives
: were previously unpartitioned, the friends' ones already had DOS partitions.
:
: Can we find what the common factor is in cases where cfdisk has failed?
I think large, new (unformatted) SCSI drives give cfdisk fits - this has
been my experience, at any rate.
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