From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 20 20:38:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D05106568B for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:38:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oxyd.oxyd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E485B8FC15 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so3113857bwz.3 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:content-type:to:subject :references:date:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:from :message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=1+85rZ0SCLyvO8adMfGo08IdfCF4MkrYgRYJIZW+1VI=; b=xh0x+133RTU3IwIQ+c3oX33ciV0oPaqJWbFgBmTek/vmi5uqIGHrZ6QYBtlHgkc3zx 5RspwG98apvb5XlCJAM8T/O6rNyvPFUjOSEv7wy+6bWDDf/bykhobdp2fbz8MKtXmoXH njNUvzHJGQNb68Aot9gipxmnksRIl6yiWOjDs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:to:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=U6WmLBrZcdwwbsSCSVIzgf9FbFT3vs44jR/zLjqQ+jiJjWPui6OzgHPxQJbWexA7bf BoD5MSG5sofd1GqRz9wn3yQ2uMVBQOaflFNbXc4ses/FqSto5mLNQ2TIomItOGQfUnrF +KxbXeShpKUxs1c2DIe6GCxE9aZBnPDlREqgc= Received: by 10.204.27.19 with SMTP id g19mr4229824bkc.150.1261341499787; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adsl-static-82-202-0-211.praha.tiscali.cz [82.202.0.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm1430546bwz.5.2009.12.20.12.38.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: Modulok , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <64c038660912201140uc862597o1cdd7b52f51fbd81@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:38:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBNYWplcmVjaA==?= Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <64c038660912201140uc862597o1cdd7b52f51fbd81@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:38:21 -0000 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok 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). fdisk may not work > correctly. If you see errors such as "fdisk: Class not found", use > gpart(8) instead." > > That way, when you're confronted by the initially mysterious, "fdisk: > Class not found" error, you don't waste tons of time double and triple > checking slice table syntax and what not. Maybe even right at the top > of the man page. Yes, it bit me today. Looking through the archives, > apparently I'm not the only one. > > Thanks! > -Modulok- Wow.. I wish I knew there *was* any gpart at the first place! I'm still kinda new to FreeBSD -- been using it since 7.0-RELEASE. Every time I had to make some changes to my partition table, I looked WTF-ly at fdisk manpage, then grabbed a Fedora live CD and made the changes from there. gpart looks like something that would do what I needed to do and would not require me to wonder if I got some obscure syntax right when modifying my partitions. So I'd like to second your suggestion: Mentioning gpart in man fdisk would've definitely saved my time. ~ Ondra