On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok <[email protected]> wrote:
List,
Just a suggestion:
In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note
that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete?
Something like:
"fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work
correctly. If you see errors such as "fdisk: Class not found", use
gpart(8) instead."
That way, when you're confronted by the initially mysterious, "fdisk:
Class not found" error, you don't waste tons of time double and triple
checking slice table syntax and what not. Maybe even right at the top
of the man page. Yes, it bit me today. Looking through the archives,
apparently I'm not the only one.
Thanks!
-Modulok-
Wow.. I wish I knew there *was* any gpart at the first place!
I'm still kinda new to FreeBSD -- been using it since 7.0-RELEASE. Every
time I had to make some changes to my partition table, I looked WTF-ly at
fdisk manpage, then grabbed a Fedora live CD and made the changes from
there. gpart looks like something that would do what I needed to do and
would not require me to wonder if I got some obscure syntax right when
modifying my partitions.
So I'd like to second your suggestion: Mentioning gpart in man fdisk
would've definitely saved my time.
~ Ondra
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