Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To : Dumas Walker
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 06:33 pm
-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
> DW> Now, it did also come with cfdisk set as the default partitioning
> DW> program back then. Removing it and replacing with fdisk fixed
> DW> any issues. ;)
> That's funny, as I actually still use (and prefer) cfdisk... Hahaha
DW> I fat fingered something once and somehow wound up with two
DW> partitions that overlaped and eventually caused a lot of system
DW> errors, forcing a complete reinstallation of the whole system.
Oooof. That doesn't sound fun.
DW> When I reported it as a bug in cfdisk, I was informed that is
DW> should allow you to make such mistakes and not even warn you
DW> because that was "freedom."
DW> When I told them I was pretty sure that fdisk wouldn't let me,
DW> and I knew that M$'s FDISK wouldn't, they got real mad.
Yeah, that seems a little silly on their part.
DW> That was when cfdisk went bye-bye. ;)
To be fair... it wasn't so much cfdisk's fault... as it was the jerkoffs
giving you a hard time about it. But I hear ya. ;-)
