[wplug] why is RH boycotting cfdisk?

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at cmu.edu
Mon Sep 22 11:50:45 EDT 2003


It seems that it has been removed after 7.2 - but why?

Ironically, the fdisk manual itself says:

BUGS
       There are several *fdisk programs around.  Each has its problems 
and strengths.  Try them in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk.  (Indeed, 
cfdisk  is  a  beautiful  program that  has  strict requirements on the 
partition tables it accepts, and produces high quality partition 
tables. Use it if you can.  fdisk is a  buggy  program  that  does
fuzzy  things  - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its 
single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels  and  
other  non-DOS  partition tables.   Avoid  it  if you can.  sfdisk is 
for hackers only - the user interface is terrible, but it is more 
correct than fdisk and more powerful than  both  fdisk  and
cfdisk.  Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)

-A
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