Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:18:08 -0700 From: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page... Message-ID: <64c038660912211118p736db003sc7fa1295cbd648cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091220212307.GA27008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <64c038660912201140uc862597o1cdd7b52f51fbd81@mail.gmail.com> <20091220212307.GA27008@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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>> "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 <rsmith@xs4all.nl> 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) >
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