[CentOS] Bug in cfdisk?

Thu Jun 24 21:41:35 UTC 2010
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>

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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