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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:27:19AM +0300, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> The new x86 Installation guide is featuring fdisk as a tool for |
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> partitioning hard drives. I think it's not a best choice and propose to |
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> replace it with cfdisk, which (AFAIK) is also on the installtion CDs. I |
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> filed a bug on this topic, where I listed all my arguments. |
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> Any comment is welcomed! |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26903 |
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> P.S. -doc people, could you please reply on -dev, so that we avoid |
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> having to separate threads. |
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This has come up in the past; the verdict has always been that cfdisk |
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lacks a few essential features and creates messier partition tables. |
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Additionally, our fdisk instructions are verbose and informative enough |
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that even total newbies have been able to figure it out (and probably |
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learned something useful in the process). |
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Jon Portnoy |
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