Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I was inclined to write this, but did not want to invade Bruce's thread > again.
That's never an issue. It's an open forum for discussion. > Other good points: it is free and open source. Virtually any > distribution has it in the repositories and comes with most live cds/dvds. > > Negative points: Bruce does not like it or Parted. And does not provide > gpt suport, IIRC. Not quite. I don't care for the parted syntax. I do like gpt partitions, but I use gdisk from gptfdisk. > Also, when describing system, partitions, memory, mounted volumes, swap, > etc, in order to facilitate support's understanding, instead of writing > down or using output of software not frequently used in Linux, just use > a terminal and copy/paste. Relevant info that I remember at this moment: > > $ fdisk -l > $ mount > $ df -h > $ free Yes, that type of info is very useful in trouble shooting. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
