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On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 23:45, Michel Talon wrote:
> >> ...i should extend fdisk to also show extended slice information.
> >
> > What a great idea! I notice that NetBSD's fdisk already does that.
> >
> > I've also been looking thru the code for the linux fdisk which, IMHO,
> > is the best of all. In addition to listing the extended partition
> > without asking, it even lets you edit a BSD disklabel.
> In fact there is only one invariant, FreeBSD fdisk sucks badly. The fdisk=
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default in dragonfly. CHS just doesn't work for drives larger than 8 GB.
cheers
simon
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