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I never found fdisk tricky. It seemed rather straight forward to me, once I looked at the menu (press m or question mark).
I seem not to have cfdisk installed and never have used it, so it may be easier. What leads you to believe it is simpler and easier to use? (I'm too late in my schedule today to google it out)
Last edited by fancypiper; 01-03-2005 at 01:54 PM.
Fedora doesn't have cfdisk installed by default. It's probably a matter of what you have gotten used to working with. I have no problem with fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk or parted but I use fdisk mostly. If you really want GUI then I guess qtparted is the way to go.
Originally posted by Tinku In trying to install gentoo on my linux box,I was going thru the following steps
# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
it returned the following error
mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
/dev/hda1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
Can some one help plz?
I do not see any mentioning about Fedora from this post. And according to him he uses SUSE. I used suse 9.1 pro before slack and i had cfdisk. Moreover, you probably misunderstood.... I didn't say I wanted gui partitioner, but cfdisk LOOKS AS gui partitioner
Sorry if I was unclear..
I seem not to have cfdisk installed and never have used it, so it may be easier. What leads you to believe it is simpler and easier to use? (I'm too late in my schedule today to google it out)
Mon Jan 03 04:02 PM fancy@tinwhistle ~ $ locate cfdisk
Mon Jan 03 04:02 PM fancy@tinwhistle ~ $
I can't find it and haven't ever used it, so I doubt that it's my favorite...
I probably have it on my Knoppix, but I never have used it. I got used to using fdisk in 1999 and haven't really found it lacking. It does what I need it to do, quickly and easily.
Last edited by fancypiper; 01-03-2005 at 03:11 PM.
Originally posted by SlackerLX I do not see any mentioning about Fedora from this post. And according to him he uses SUSE. I used suse 9.1 pro before slack and i had cfdisk. Moreover, you probably misunderstood.... I didn't say I wanted gui partitioner, but cfdisk LOOKS AS gui partitioner
Sorry if I was unclear..
Well, I use Fedora, the original poster is using SuSE.
You mean cfdisk acts sort of like the file manager portion (which I feel crippled without in Linux) of the midnight commander suite compared to ls?
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