On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Alexander Kurtz
kurtz.a...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:24 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
So what's the advantage of c/sfdisk?
Well, it's smaller, has fewer dependencies and is installed on almost
every system. And since most administrators
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:05 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
True, but deleting and recreating was advised in a number of how to's.
Yeah, fdisk is kind of limited, see below.
Isn't it kind of silly to have so many tools that try to do the same thing?
GNU parted has way more features than
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Alexander Kurtz
kurtz.a...@googlemail.com wrote:
Isn't it kind of silly to have so many tools that try to do the same thing?
GNU parted has way more features than {c,s,}fdisk will probably ever
have; the most popular being perhaps support for a lot of
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:24 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
So what's the advantage of c/sfdisk?
Well, it's smaller, has fewer dependencies and is installed on almost
every system. And since most administrators are familiar with it and it
is more than sufficient for most of the common tasks,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Kurtz
kurtz.a...@googlemail.com wrote:
That's hardly a bug:
True
* If you delete something, data loss is the expected outcome.
True, but deleting and recreating was advised in a number of how to's.
* If you want to do advanced operations
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.17.2-9
Severity: serious
File: /sbin/fdisk
Justification: Near Data Loss
Hi,
I wanted to resize a partition, so I deleted it and recreated it (is there no
better way?). After this, the system no longer booted...
Turns out the old partition started at sector 63
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