On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Kurtz <kurtz.a...@googlemail.com> wrote: > That's hardly a bug:
True > * If you delete something, data loss is the expected outcome. True, but deleting and recreating was advised in a number of how to's. > * If you want to do advanced operations like resizing a partition, > use more advanced tools like parted. Isn't it kind of silly to have so many tools that try to do the same thing? > * The fact that fdisk doesn't let you start partitions before > sector 2048 is a feature, not a bug ;-). This is used to ensure > the correct alignment of partitions on modern hard drives with a > (physical) sector size of more than 512 bytes. > * However, fdisk will still let you create partitions that start > at sector 63, if you are in DOS-compatible mode, i.e. don't > specify -c as parameter. It wasn't clear to me at all what DOS-compatibility meant, so I had no idea that'd allow me to create a partition at sector 63. Greetings, Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
