off topic as well!!
this sounds like catch-22!! (yeah, i'm old!, and well read!)
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:12 AM, John Newbigin
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Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions 2Tb.
DOS partitions can not be 2Tb. This could ...corrupt partition tables and
ruin filesystem.
The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs.
David Mackintosh wrote:
How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list
if questions and discussions of the included components belong on the
support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda
and friends) probably belongs in the upstream vendor's
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:06 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
A bit of common sense comes in handy. Talking about something that the
developers of a component need to weight in on is definitely best suited
to the upstream lists for the component. If you hit specific issues with
the
2008/10/15 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
David Mackintosh wrote:
How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list
if questions and discussions of the included components belong on the
support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda
and friends)
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:45 -0700, bruce wrote:
say bob...
it appears some would like to have the proverbial question how can i do X
removed as well, particularly if X isn't somehow a direct centos issue.
however, it might be that X is indeed a package in the centos mirror!!
for my $0.02
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just installed CentOS. my X doesn't work. Now what do I do to fix
it.
A valid question needing a valid answer. List maintainers can do what I
do. Skip the thread.
But asked in a totally inappropriate fashion. The
I'm beginning to understand why Vandaman was so stiff about his
responses, and the more BS we allow in, the more we'll get.
And then those who genuinely need the help will be lost in a sea of
random threads.
Mailing lists need to be reigned in a bit tighter; for those of you
wanting to talk
Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell
the following thing:
parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and
ruin filesystem.
What do you think about it?
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Sergio Belkin wrote:
Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell
the following thing:
parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and
ruin filesystem.
Sounds like a question for the parted list, not here. Plenty of stuff in
CentOS uses parted,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
And Just to remind everyone that no, this is still not a general
conversation about stuff list.
How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list
if questions and discussions of the included components belong
Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions 2Tb.
DOS partitions can not be 2Tb. This could ...corrupt partition tables
and ruin filesystem.
The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs.
John.
Sergio Belkin wrote:
Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed
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