[CentOS] Bug in cfdisk?
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Thu Jun 24 21:41:35 UTC 2010
On 06/24/2010 05:24 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working through Sander Van Vugt's "Beginning the Linux
> Command Line" (Apress), just for fun. Right now I'm just trying out all
> the examples in chapter 5, dedicated to managing partitions and logical
> volumes. After some work with fdisk (which I normally use), the book
> introduces cfdisk (which I've been using in Slackware days). Curiously
> enough, CentOS' cfdisk doesn't seem to work.
>
> I'm experimenting with two USB sticks connected to an old NEC Powermate,
> which appear as /dev/sda resp. /dev/sdb. I can access them with fdisk OK
> and partition them any way I want. Except I can't seem to open them with
> cfdisk. When I try it, I get the following error message :
>
> **************************************
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek disk on drive
> Press any key to exit cfdisk
> **************************************
>
> Now I don't really mind about that error, since fdisk does anything I
> need. But I'm just wondering about why that happens.
cfdisk is not part of centos/rhel. and it's neither working for us...
but sometimes working...:-)
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