On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:05 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > True, but deleting and recreating was advised in a number of how to's.
Yeah, fdisk is kind of limited, see below.
> Isn't it kind of silly to have so many tools that try to do the same thing?
GNU parted has way more features than {c,s,}fdisk will probably ever
have; the most popular being perhaps support for a lot of different
partition layouts[1] including the future standard GPT. And it can
actually resize partitions...
> It wasn't clear to me at all what DOS-compatibility meant, so I had no
> idea that'd allow me to create a partition at sector 63.
Basically DOS-compatible means aligning partitions to cylinder
boundaries, since DOS requires that. And since the default is 63
sectors/track this means that the first partition normally starts at
sector 63, i.e. at the beginning of the second cylinder.
Hope this makes the situation more clear! Tell me if you're still having
problems with fdisk!
Best regards
Alexander Kurtz
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#mklabel
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