Re: Replacing fdisk by cfdisk?
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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 seen some i386 problems where cfdisk didnt work before I cleaned the
> partition with cfdisk. And anyway I don't see any option in cfdisk where I
> can explicitly specify cylinders or even sectors for partitions, which can
> be useful when recovering a crashed mbr (twice in the last couple of
> months).
CFDISK(8) Linux Programmer's Manual CFDISK(8)
NAME
cfdisk - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for
Linux
SYNOPSIS
cfdisk [ -avz ] [ -c cylinders ] [ -h heads ] [ -s sec
tors-per-track ] [ -P opt ] [ device ]
And for your first problem, the '-z' option is probably what you need to
reset the partition table.
Cordialement,
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