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...:-) -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"