From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-5954-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 30055 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Aug 2003 19:55:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5504 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2003 19:55:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:57:43 -0400 From: Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030822155743.25c00feb.weeve@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=..Y:WigK)/EsTUn" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in X-Archives-Salt: b393c741-2264-4568-b539-d852b6e8754d X-Archives-Hash: 954394ed1350be0556be8e8495c26c2d --=..Y:WigK)/EsTUn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:27:19 +0300 Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org> 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! My vote would be for parted instead of either of these. fdisk can be buggy to the point of being unusable on sparc where parted works with no problems in the same scenario. Granted it's got a funky syntax but it seems to do the right thing, and plus it's got resizing support (though I don't recommend that for the install guide). My $0.02 -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Lead --=..Y:WigK)/EsTUn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RnW6dKvgdVioq28RAj5OAKC32bAzjS1wVmgLZ/cToicKrmXTxACfUnjU va2VcTAjfkc0ZUsTJgVToV0= =NrQ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=..Y:WigK)/EsTUn--