On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in > understanding a few things. > > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? >
I read somewhere that 'cfdisk' should be better in defining partition borders fitting to those virtual cylinders and sectors of IDE drives. With my 8 years old computer, I found following the Win95 FDISK by cfdisk in order to partition the rest of my drives for Linux to be less error-prone than working with fdisk. I forgot the details, but with fdisk, I ran into some error messages concerning partition borders, even writing errors from Linux partitions into Windows partitions or so. Unfortunately, I can't give more details, but I would suggest using fdisk and, if troubles should show up, especially in combination with other OSs, try cfdisk. W. Fokken -- Wilko Fokken Education is a man's going Landschaftspolder 67 from cocksure ignorance D-26831 Dollart to thoughtful uncertainty. -------------------- Tel. 04953-382 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
