Re: MS fdisk hangs on loading

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From: Paul Richards (Pauldoo)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00

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duncan corps wrote:
> 
> 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...

That reminds me of a time when I used ms fdisk to make the fat partition
and it acutally overlapped my linux partition..  I never noticed until I
had formated both partitions several times wondering where all the
errors came from...  :)
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Paul Richards (Pauldoo) - http://www.pauldoo.co.uk

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