>> "As far as I know, "the class not found" just a warning, not an error."

Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC
partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the
operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused
slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record
remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked
fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though.

-Modulok-

On 12/20/09, Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
>> Just a suggestion:
>>
>> In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note
>> that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete?
>> Something like:
>>
>> "fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work
>> correctly. If you see errors such as "fdisk: Class not found", use
>> gpart(8) instead."
>
> As far as I know, "the class not found" just a warning, not an error. In the
> cases where I've seen it, fdisk still carried out the command it was
> given. I've always just ignored it.
>
> Roland
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