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Re: MS fdisk hangs on loading

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From: duncan corps
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
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This was written by James Stevenson in uk.comp.os.linux...
|> no visable drives in the logical partion and when i tried to delete the logical
|> partion it says there was a drive in the logical partion so i could not delete it
|> hum like to see an explanation for that ;)

	MS' fdisk program is really badly written. It can't show you
non-DOS partitions, but it knows they're there. Sometimes. Sort of. And it
doesn't like creating more than one primary partition. And it has some
funny ideas about flagging/ defining/ calculating partition sizes. And so
on...

|> the linux fdisk worked fine like it always does

	Of course it would. It was written by people who care more about
creating quality, versatile, interoperable tools rather than doing just
enough to earn their paycheck and sell some product.

		dunc

PS. You may want to fix your line length/ wrapping. This xterm is eighty
	columns wide, yours seems to be around eighty-five columns wide...
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From: duncan corps <duncan@nospam.fwei.org.uk>
Subject: Re: MS fdisk hangs on loading
Date: 2000/05/11
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