Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Disk Druid is a dreadful program.

Nah, it's fine for many purposes, but there are some things that some 
people might want to do that aren't easy to do with it.

> Why has the choice of fdisk disappeared?

It's there for experts, but IIRC was removed to avoid tempting newbies to 
try a dangerous and difficult tool.

> I read that one could bring up bash (and so run fdisk)
> by Alt-F2 when asked to choose
> between automatic partitioning and Disk Druid (what a choice!)
> but that did not work for me.

Should be Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch from X to VC 2.

>
> I wanted to re-organise my partitions
> while keeping hda1 which has Windows-XP on it.
> I couldn't see any way to do this with Disk Druid,
> so I had to start Knoppix, and run fdisk under that.
>
> It seems rather bad to me that one has to run another distribution
> in order to install Fedora.
>
> Maybe I am missing something?

fdisk is available in rescue mode too.


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