From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 15:41:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C9916A4C3 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2296043FE3 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7MMeMUp013848 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7MMeMRb013847; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200308222240.h7MMeMRb013847@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Pawel Malachowski Subject: Re: i386/42750 (Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pawel Malachowski List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:41:28 -0000 The following reply was made to PR i386/42750; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Pawel Malachowski To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: d_j@vip.bg Subject: Re: i386/42750 (Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:41:40 +0200 > I don't see FreeBSD's fdisk as a tenable solution in its current form, > and since it is not germane to the O.S., why not replace it with another > one, e.g., from Linux? How about this one? % cat /usr/ports/sysutils/linuxfdisk/pkg-descr This is fdisk from util-linux package, common on Linux systems. It allows interactive manipulation of partitions including logical ones from MS-DOS partitioning scheme. -- Paweł Małachowski