From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1313 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Aug 2003 15:40:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30660 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 15:40:41 -0000 Message-ID: <008401c36666$a20c5380$1401a8c0@punx> From: "matt c" To: References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <20030819081901.GA13652@cerberus.oppresses.us> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:29:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in X-Archives-Salt: 399d4ea8-2cc0-4e1c-b5f4-08ffdb8054c4 X-Archives-Hash: 91769cee8d09357c419bbbf5028f4c08 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Portnoy" Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:19 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in > This has come up in the past; the verdict has always been that cfdisk > lacks a few essential features and creates messier partition tables. > Additionally, our fdisk instructions are verbose and informative enough > that even total newbies have been able to figure it out (and probably > learned something useful in the process). I don't think it necessarily creates messier partition tables - it is just much more sensitive to poorly created /messy partition tables - you might be in the process of trying to fix a foobar'd table and cfdisk will shudder, twitch, and die - fdisk will chug along merrily and let you do what you wish. The real issue is features - fdisk is not that much less "user friendly" than cfdisk, and why include two partition programs when one is enough and does the job? If someone wants it - let them emerge it.. ;-) Matt -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list