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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:46:04 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823034604.GA29222%chutz@gg3.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030822155743.25c00feb.weeve@gentoo.org>

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On 22/08/2003 at 15:57:43(-0400), Jason Wever used 1.1K just to say:
> 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.  

I few points I have against parted:

(parted) mkpart p 2000
End? .... how do I say "the end of the disk" here

I see that "print" would give us the size of the disk but the interface of
parted is frustrating.

fdisk has default values for start and end, pointing at the start and end of
free space -- very useful.

It is easier to create a 1G partition with fdisk using the "+1G" syntax. Parted
requires the starting and ending "megabyte".

It is easy to make a mistake with parted mostly because it *commits* *changes*
*immediately*. There is no undo.

Lastly I am not a sparc user. If parted is better for the sparc, I guess it
would be better to have parted there, but please, don't screw the x86 CDs.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-23  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19  8:27 [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in Svyatogor
2003-08-19  8:19 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-19 10:44   ` Camille Huot
2003-08-19 15:29   ` matt c
2003-08-19 16:11     ` Svyatogor
2003-08-19 16:18       ` foser
2003-08-20  1:16         ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-20  4:52           ` donnie berkholz
2003-08-20  8:02             ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-21  5:36           ` Stewart Honsberger
2003-08-21  5:54             ` Patrick Kursawe
2003-08-21  9:06             ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-21 13:33             ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-21 19:34               ` Stewart Honsberger
2003-08-22 14:12           ` foser
2003-08-19 18:34       ` Salze
2003-08-19 10:59 ` Lloyd D Budd
2003-08-22 19:57 ` Jason Wever
2003-08-22 22:20   ` Martin, Stephen
2003-08-22 22:25     ` Martin, Stephen
2003-08-23  3:46   ` Georgi Georgiev [this message]
2003-08-23  9:33     ` Sven Vermeulen

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