i386/42750 (Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3)

Pawel Malachowski pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl
Fri Aug 22 15:41:28 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR i386/42750; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc: d_j at vip.bg
Subject: Re: i386/42750 (Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:41:40 +0200

 > I don't see FreeBSD's fdisk as a tenable solution in its current form,
 > and since it is not germane to the O.S., why not replace it with another
 > one, e.g., from Linux?
 
 How about this one?
 
 % cat /usr/ports/sysutils/linuxfdisk/pkg-descr
 This is fdisk from util-linux package, common on Linux systems.
 It allows interactive manipulation of partitions including logical ones
 from MS-DOS partitioning scheme.
 
 
 
 -- 
 Pawe³ Ma³achowski


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