Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

From: Kenward Vaughan (kay_jay_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/05/04

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    On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
    > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
    > >
    > > Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in
    > > understanding a few things.
    > >
    > > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
    > > other cfdisk being curses based?
    > >
    >
    > I read somewhere that 'cfdisk' should be better in defining partition
    > borders fitting to those virtual cylinders and sectors of IDE drives.
    >
    > With my 8 years old computer, I found following the Win95 FDISK by
    > cfdisk in order to partition the rest of my drives for Linux to be less
    > error-prone than working with fdisk.
    ...

    My own experience with M$ systems stems from keeping Wintendo 98 on the
    drive for Freespace. Couldn't get that OS to not croak or attempt to
    change the partition size--until I discovered it couldn't handle an
    "oddly-sized" partition coming out of cfdisk (eg. 4224.5 Gb -- perhaps
    anything not fitting a perfect marriage between block size and total
    space?).

    Anyway, my thought is to make sure you pick a nice whole number of Gb
    (a nice binary multiple or multiples added together). M$ may cry
    otherwise.

    Kenward 

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