"C.M. Connelly" wrote:
> Once you've chosen a partition to create (using the last
> number listed, which is likely to be 4 on a Mac disk), pdisk
> wants you to enter the starting block number, followed by
> the number of blocks in the partition. An inexperienced
> person isn't going to have any idea how big a ``block'' is,
> or where a partition should start. In order to figure out
> how to get a, say, 2 GB partition, you're going to need a
> calculator or a scratch pad. Good luck if you're creating
> lots of partitions. I've used partitioning tools for Linux
> that are much more user-friendly. They allow you to specify
> the size of partitions in ``real'' units (megabytes or
> gigabytes), and can handle at least some of the details
> related to start points.
While I agree with most of your points, just for the record, this partitioner
*does* allow you to enter partition sizes in K, M, or G. Just say 64M, 2GB,
etc. Of course, the only reason I knew to try this is that the last *nix I
tried installing was mklinux, and their version of pdisk has decent
documentation.
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