Re: fdisk: begin earlier than start on new partitions

[nbcouch idcomm com (Nicholas Couch)]

Lord of the Elves wrote:

> The only commercial disk partitioner I've seen is "Partition Magic", at
> www.powerquest.com. But I can't in good conscience recommend that anyone outlays
> $70- for something that doesn't support the linux file system (ext2 et al).
> Their webpage is kind of evasive about it not supporting linux (the only info
> they give is that all 'major " platforms are supported, without giving any
> details , and they even have a screenshot where some-one has linux installed...)

PM recognizes Linux partitions, but will not format them for you. You
still have to use fdisk, or some variant thereof. I believe they intend
to add more Linux support in a future release.

nbc