On Sun 04 Jun 2017 at 13:14:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2017-06-04 11:19 (UTC-0500): > ... > > But you're unusual in working in this area, so unlike most of us > > you're going to have a dedicated tool available; in fact you work > > on it I see. > > I'm not sure what you mean. I'm only a DFSee user, no kind of programmer.
I obviously misunderstood the appearance of your name in doc/dfsee.txt but its presence manifestly shows you have some interest in it. > I > discovered the value of sticking to one single partitioning tool with an > interface consistent across environments for use on multiboot systems back in > 2000, when I first took serious interest in adding Linux to my installed > systems > repertoire for eventual migration from OS/2. Back then in v3.x it had native > binaries for DOS, Windows and OS/2 only. Its Linux binary was introduced in > 2004, About the time I retired from having any use for DOS. As I said, my aside was referring to the late 1990s. You can see that I don't set such a great store by it nowadays. > Mac in 2007. GPT writing, which I have yet to use, was a long time coming, > introduced in 2015. Yes, I can see the value in using a single tool. Currently in my case it's gdisk but, then, I don't have disks with 30+ partitions of every kind under the sun. However, my original comment was aimed at the screen I included within it, where the information displayed is a fraction of what is contained in your fi965d03.txt file. Almost without exception, the unambiguous partition sizes are the least likely parameter to be omitted in such a listing so differences might still be useful for some people. Cheers, David.
