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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:10:02 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?: |
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>> Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this. |
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>> Perhaps I should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX |
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>> functions and publish it as FOSS. |
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>Why reinvent the wheel? Just use 'sfdisk -d'. |
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No reinvention required: I already have an old wheel in the garage. |
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There are already several Linux programs that can display partition |
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tables, and present them in a manner more useful than a dd of some |
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bytes from the MBR: fdisk, sfdisk, parted, etc. Mine would simply be |
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another. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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