Re: Replacing fdisk by cfdisk?
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:27:29 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
>This depends, cfdisk when I used it couldn't write a partition table.
>Has this changed?
Or better yet, can it handle a partition table which isn't quite what it
expects?
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition
Press any key to exit fdisk
Nope. Meanwhile fdisk works just fine even though it does bitch about
it. Odd part is, this partition table was made with fdisk.
root@teleute:~# fdisk
Using /dev/sda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 149 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 32 257023+ 83 Linux native
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(250, 63, 32) logical=(31, 254, 31)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(250, 63, 32) should be (250, 254, 63)
/dev/sda2 32 150 941056 5 Extended
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(251, 0, 1) logical=(31, 254, 32)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(145, 63, 32) logical=(149, 39, 18)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(145, 63, 32) should be (145, 254, 63)
/dev/sda5 32 39 52223+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 77 97 154623+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 97 148 410623+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda8 148 150 14335+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda9 39 77 313261 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
Until cfdisk can do more than panic and quite I say leave fdisk in
there. It may be old, crusty and unsupported, but at least it works.
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