Re: Replacing fdisk by cfdisk?

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Vincent Renardias (vincent@ldsol.com):
> Since fdisk has been declared 'obsolete and unmaintained' by its upstream
> maintainer (Andries Brouwer), I'm considering removing it, and putting a
> link pointing to cfdisk instead.
> Does anybody see a technical objection to this? (like some non-i386 arch
> where fdisk works but not cfdisk)

I've had problems using cfdisk with new drives (i.e., drives that have
never been partitioned.) It seemed to have trouble figuring out how to
display partition info based on random garbage. I don't know if that's
been fixed in later versions.

Mike Stone