Re: Replacing fdisk by cfdisk?
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:06:34AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
> -z: Start with a zero partition table, instead of reading the pt from
>
> The -z options seems to fix your problem.
See, wichert, the -z option is of no use if you have at least some valuable
information in your partition table. Starting from scratch does not help
you fixing a small problem in a single partition for example.
But then, I couldn't fix the partition with cfdisk anyway, so why bother :)
(cfdisk only accepts MB's as input when asking for partition size, do I need
to say more? You can rescue a disk by looking at the exact sectors where
your partition starts, and entering them in fdisk. I have done so and
recovered my whole system, two primary and three logical partitions)
Marcus
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