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Re: Hard drive bad sector warning



On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote:
2011/9/10 yudi v<yudi.tux@gmail.com>:
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Kind regards,
Yudi

I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try
cfdisk, it seems updated.



Yudi is not using GPT.

cfdisk and fdisk are both part of (upstream) util-linux-ng[*1], so both handle large sectors the same. In Squeeze they are both (currently) at 2.17.2-9. Essentially cfdisk is just fdisk with less features and capabilities, and, at least in Debian AFAIK, is only available as part of d-i (it's a udeb).

Where did you get a version of cfdisk that is installable on normal Debian system?

Kind regards

[*1]just to confuse the issue, util-linux-ng (New Generation), originally a fork of util-linux, has recently been renamed "util-linux" I swear I'm not making that up! :-)

Refs:-
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17-ReleaseNotes
http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2010/01/util-linux-ng-217.html
http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux/ (currently down for maintenance)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux

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