From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 19:18:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3A3106566B for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:18:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9269E8FC18 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so3676656pwi.3 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:18:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=NzGN4Rd1G9FxrjnrIZ4/0dXDmyj/J9GRT1ieclpmmWI=; b=M9dn2sJj6CfF1scSfEDayl9xaAAFGi6d4AvdD4OEx8sR+3U7tyJS9QDA07p1R3S8xg xaGy5t9IoNlI/IEKk+jk3FbuRUtGpxXLF50Mhyu3Q9YcVrBwzCI4wlnyU/OVtEU5VtRN fqbq+SNm3CcfNhyfrObExOp6gh1JTWaIsrtmU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=qwg5F2WfVG9CmiU/NMkEe69mLDODmNRp/zuoU2/ulUmy+mwwdYYYdgaU/cJcnu85hJ KkVER/w2/T785VMvgSxdqupPK6aNt3Gy1AcREDZKtmW7NM9qDN7cVtemdmobqldsMMgE Krij7GLARWiHxEw6R6A8rshprwTstGhTzTOiw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.248.31 with SMTP id v31mr5062853wfh.227.1261423088958; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:18:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091220212307.GA27008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <64c038660912201140uc862597o1cdd7b52f51fbd81@mail.gmail.com> <20091220212307.GA27008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:18:08 -0700 Message-ID: <64c038660912211118p736db003sc7fa1295cbd648cc@mail.gmail.com> From: Modulok To: Roland Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:18:09 -0000 >> "As far as I know, "the class not found" just a warning, not an error." Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith wrote: > 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 > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) >