Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[William Hooper]

Jeff Vian said:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy said:
>>
>>> Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Fdisk has never been removed. It has always been availible
>>>> for people who want more control over their partitioning than Disk
>>>> Druid
>>>> provides.
>>>
>>> What you are saying is that there is a secret code known to experts
>>> for doing this.
>>
>> Again, the "secret code" is the standard keystroke for changing virtual
>>  terminals.
>>
>
> once again. that presumes that the user is familiar with changing virtual
> terminals,  and

One would assume that the "advanced user" that would prefer fdisk would be
familiar with the process.

> BTW -- those keystrokes are different in text mode vs
> graphics mode. (at least once booted to the OS).

Ctrl-Alt-Fx seems to work in both cases for me.

As a side note, it appears that fdisk isn't even the preferred text based
tool.  Whereas the older manuals suggest using it for removing Red Hat
partitions, the newer manuals give the procedure with parted.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-uninstall.html

-- 
William Hooper