Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
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

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error.

Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Modulok
List, 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

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, 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).

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
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