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

[Roland Smith]

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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