On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:34:07AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/23/2014 7:00 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > OK, I've got one. I formatted a 2TB disk using cfdisk, and > > attached is what cfdisk reports. > > Ok, so fdisk is correct here. Basically cfdisk is a long unmaintained > POS that you should not use until upstream finally gets around to > rewriting it. One of the many problems it has is that it does not > correctly align partitions on so called "advanced format" disks.
OK thanks. But this then indicates that cfdisk should be removed entirely or replaced by a script which says "cfdisk has been removed due to it being unmaintained and error-ridden. Please use ... instead". Does sfdisk also need removing for similar reasons? Should this become an important bug? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
