Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

[Modulok]

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 at 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 at 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
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