Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:27:19AM +0300, Svyatogor wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The new x86 Installation guide is featuring fdisk as a tool for
> partitioning hard drives. I think it's not a best choice and propose to
> replace it with cfdisk, which (AFAIK) is also on the installtion CDs. I
> filed a bug on this topic, where I listed all my arguments.
> 
> Any comment is welcomed!
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26903
> 
> P.S. -doc people, could you please reply on -dev, so that we avoid
> having to separate threads.
> 

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).

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Jon Portnoy
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