Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:20:03 -0700 From: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page... Message-ID: <64c038660912211120q4f87fe0xc63020514e818c3b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660912211118p736db003sc7fa1295cbd648cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660912201140uc862597o1cdd7b52f51fbd81@mail.gmail.com> <20091220212307.GA27008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <64c038660912211118p736db003sc7fa1295cbd648cc@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: >>> "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 FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record > remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked > fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. > > -Modulok- > > On 12/20/09, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> 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 >>> correctly. If you see errors such as "fdisk: Class not found", use >>> gpart(8) instead." >> >> As far as I know, "the class not found" just a warning, not an error. In >> the >> cases where I've seen it, fdisk still carried out the command it was >> given. I've always just ignored it. >> >> Roland >> -- >> R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ >> [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] >> pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) >> >
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