Re: Utilities to format partition?

[Kevin Myers <km gcom co th>]

On 31 Jul 2002 08:57:53 -0400, you wrote:

>I did 'man fdisk' couple times before, and I still don't understand how
>to use it. Forgive my ignorant please. Furthermore, at the end of 'man
>fdisk' in the 'Bugs' section:
>"fdisk is a buggy program that  does  fuzzy
>       things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results.
>       Its single advantage is that it has some support  for  BSD
>       disk  labels and other non-DOS partition tables."
>
>So, I am not really confident to just type fdisk. I don't want to loose
>my other stuff. 

You missed a bit:

Try  them  in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk.  (Indeed, cfdisk is a
beautiful pro gram that has strict requirements on the partition tables it
accepts, and  produces  high  quality  partition  tables. Use it if you can.

Try it.