Previously Michael Stone wrote:
> 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.
root@lightning:/cdr/collect/slink# cfdisk -h
cfdisk: option requires an argument -- h
Usage:
Print version:
cfdisk -v
Print partition table:
cfdisk -P {r|s|t} [options] device
Interactive use:
cfdisk [options] device
Options:
-a: Use arrow instead of highlighting;
-z: Start with a zero partition table, instead of reading the pt from
disk;
-c C -h H -s S: Override the kernel's idea of the number of cylinders,
the number of heads and the number of sectors/track.
Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Kevin E. Martin & aeb
The -z options seems to fix your problem.
Wichert.
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