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Article #315Re: MS fdisk hangs on loading
From: duncan corps
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
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... -- _| _ _ _ ___ _ ___ "Willow, you're alive?" -Buffy (_| \_/ / \ \_ /-\ \ / "Aren't I usually?" -Willow
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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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