Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

Timothy Payne tim at tmpco.com
Tue Jan 18 15:18:53 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:04:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly
> > > wouldn't have any such magic powers.
> > Who said it did?  What I'm saying is that it totally ignored the 
> > existing fdisk setup partitions and carved out its own from whole 
> > cloth.
> 
> Did you get an error dialog about the partition table? If so, this is the
> bug with parted and the 2.6 kernel. Not a disk druid design flaw.

Is this why my FC3 no longer understands the geometry of my drives?

Tim... 





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