[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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