Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> 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.
...
My own experience with M$ systems stems from keeping Wintendo 98 on the
drive for Freespace. Couldn't get that OS to not croak or attempt to
change the partition size--until I discovered it couldn't handle an
"oddly-sized" partition coming out of cfdisk (eg. 4224.5 Gb -- perhaps
anything not fitting a perfect marriage between block size and total
space?).
Anyway, my thought is to make sure you pick a nice whole number of Gb
(a nice binary multiple or multiples added together). M$ may cry
otherwise.
Kenward
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