Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 22/08/2003 at 15:57:43(-0400), Jason Wever used 1.1K just to say:
> My vote would be for parted instead of either of these.  fdisk can be
> buggy to the point of being unusable on sparc where parted works with no
> problems in the same scenario.

I few points I have against parted:

(parted) mkpart p 2000
End? .... how do I say "the end of the disk" here

I see that "print" would give us the size of the disk but the interface of
parted is frustrating.

fdisk has default values for start and end, pointing at the start and end of
free space -- very useful.

It is easier to create a 1G partition with fdisk using the "+1G" syntax. Parted
requires the starting and ending "megabyte".

It is easy to make a mistake with parted mostly because it *commits* *changes*
*immediately*. There is no undo.

Lastly I am not a sparc user. If parted is better for the sparc, I guess it
would be better to have parted there, but please, don't screw the x86 CDs.

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