HFS with FC4

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue Oct 18 08:36:20 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:12 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:55 -0700, Erick Calder wrote:
> > if I do
> > 
> > # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> fdisk is for MS-DOS-format partition tables. Use "parted /dev/sda print"
> instead.

Out of curiosity - is pdisk depricated?
I remember back in the day, I was able to do some rather nice stuff with
pdisk that I could not do from OS X with any partition took (including
pdisk that came with OS X) - it was a nifty tool, but I don't seem to
see it in FC4 for ppc.





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