From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 2:40:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E08CA1173E for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 10DnMC-00012J-00; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 03:40:28 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id DAA01379; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 03:40:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199902191040.DAA01379@harmony.village.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: fdisk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:28:14 +0200." <19990219122814.A65108@ucb.crimea.ua> References: <19990219122814.A65108@ucb.crimea.ua> <199902191005.DAA01110@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 03:40:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990219122814.A65108@ucb.crimea.ua> Ruslan Ermilov writes: : I suppose, you're talking about compatibility mode disk, are you? : If yes, `fdisk -t -u' is supposed to test it, and `fdisk -u' -- to do it. That doesn't work. That's kinda my whole point. : Could you tell us about the differences? In a nutshell, they have been enhanced to do the math that we've all done a zillion times (hmm, that last partition started at 132354 and was 12341235 sectors long, so the next partition starts at ...). Also they are nicer about editing things than the raw, bruit force approach that fdisk especially currently uses. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message