Re: use fdisk, don't trust cfdisk

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:33:30 -0400, TK wrote: > The lesson is, before you make any change to a partition, make sure no > partition from the same physical device is mounted. And use fdisk, not > cfdisk (despite it's much more user-fr

use fdisk, don't trust cfdisk

2003-09-28 Thread TK
I have just discovered a scenario where fdisk is safer/more useful than cfdisk, through the hard way. Let's say a 40G hard drive /dev/hde has two primary partitions and 20G free space (as defined in /etc/fstab): /dev/hde1: ext3 (10G) mounted on /mnt/dir1 /dev/hde2: ext3 (10G) mounted on

RE: cfdisk

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Moore
I too was unable to locate the cfdisk command in Red Hat7.2. I was wanting to use it a couple of days ago. I have a dual boot system with WindowME installed on one hard drive (hda1/vfat) and Linux installed on the other (hdb1/ext3). I was wanting to reduce the size of the vfat partition and

Re: cfdisk

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Moore
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where is cfdisk in rh 7.2?

2002-02-01 Thread LuisMi
I can't find the cfdisk command into my redhat 7.2, where is it? -- +-- | Luis Miguel Cruz. | | Public Key: http://www.flcnet.es/tbe/luismi/nadie/luismi_ad

Re: where is cfdisk in rh 7.2?

2002-01-31 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:04:34PM +0100, LuisMi wrote: > I can't find the cfdisk command into my redhat 7.2, where is it? It was removed due to buggishness or somesuch. I miss it too. -- Hal Burgiss ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL P

cfdisk

2002-01-27 Thread hanfamily
Hi, What happened to cfdisk in RH7.2? What is the best substitute. I use it to format zipdrives. Thanks Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list