Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:24 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> So what's the advantage of c/sfdisk? > > Well, it's smaller, has fewer dependencies and is installed on almost > every system. And since most administrators are familiar with it and it > is more than sufficient for most of the common tasks, there is no reason > not to keep it... Fair enough. It's still bad that I had trouble resizing a partition. :p -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:24 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > So what's the advantage of c/sfdisk? Well, it's smaller, has fewer dependencies and is installed on almost every system. And since most administrators are familiar with it and it is more than sufficient for most of the common tasks, there is no reason not to keep it... Best regards Alexander Kurtz signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Alexander Kurtz
wrote:
>> 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...
So what's the advantage of c/sfdisk?
Olaf
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Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
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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Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > That's hardly a bug: True > * If you delete something, data loss is the expected outcome. True, but deleting and recreating was advised in a number of how to's. > * If you want to do advanced operations like resizing a partition, > use more advanced tools like parted. Isn't it kind of silly to have so many tools that try to do the same thing? > * The fact that fdisk doesn't let you start partitions before > sector 2048 is a feature, not a bug ;-). This is used to ensure > the correct alignment of partitions on modern hard drives with a > (physical) sector size of more than 512 bytes. > * However, fdisk will still let you create partitions that start > at sector 63, if you are in DOS-compatible mode, i.e. don't > specify -c as parameter. 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. Greetings, Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613592: /sbin/fdisk: Can't create at sector 63
Package: util-linux Version: 2.17.2-9 Severity: serious File: /sbin/fdisk Justification: Near Data Loss Hi, I wanted to resize a partition, so I deleted it and recreated it (is there no better way?). After this, the system no longer booted... Turns out the old partition started at sector 63 and the new partition can't start before sector 2048. Not so good. Greetings, Olaf -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg1.15.8.10Debian package management system ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.1 scripts for initializing and shutt ii install-info4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libblkid1 2.17.2-9 block device id library ii libc6 2.11.2-11Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libslang2 2.2.2-4 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid12.17.2-9 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii tzdata 2011a-1 time zone and daylight-saving time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii console-tools1:0.2.3dbs-69.1 Linux console and font utilities pn dosfstools (no description available) pn util-linux-locales (no description available) -- debconf information: util-linux/noauto-with-nonzero-passnum: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
