On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 3:25 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I care because I'm curious why cfdisk didn't leave the disk with no > partitions. > > insufficient data for a meaningful answer. there are at least a dozen potential causes for the behavior you describe. some of them user errors, some hardware errors, some software errors. to narrow down the possibilities, you would need to try the same drive in multiple systems, and multiple drives in the system you're working with to see which one the problem follows. we would need to know all the steps you took to make the changes to see if there are any possible points where something could have gone wrong. I've seen SSDs store data just fine, but refuse to accept partition table changes. I've seen one partitioning utility fail to make changes while another one succeeded. sometimes a particular quirk of reality is common enough that we've heard it multiple times and can learn to recognize it with very few details. this is not one of those times. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
