Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

[Wilko Fokken <wfok@arcor.de>]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> 
> Hello.  I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in 
> understanding a few things.
> 
> First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> other cfdisk being curses based?
> 

I read somewhere that 'cfdisk' should be better in defining partition
borders fitting to those virtual cylinders and sectors of IDE drives.

With my 8 years old computer, I found following the Win95 FDISK by
cfdisk in order to partition the rest of my drives for Linux to be less
error-prone than working with fdisk.

I forgot the details, but with fdisk, I ran into some error messages
concerning partition borders, even writing errors from Linux partitions
into Windows partitions or so.  Unfortunately, I can't give more
details, but I would suggest using fdisk and, if troubles should show
up, especially in combination with other OSs, try cfdisk. 

W. Fokken

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