Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Jan 19 00:48:27 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 07:18 -0800, Timothy Payne wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:04:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly
> > > > wouldn't have any such magic powers.
> > > Who said it did?  What I'm saying is that it totally ignored the 
> > > existing fdisk setup partitions and carved out its own from whole 
> > > cloth.
> > 
> > Did you get an error dialog about the partition table? If so, this is the
> > bug with parted and the 2.6 kernel. Not a disk druid design flaw.
> 
> Is this why my FC3 no longer understands the geometry of my drives?
> 
That may be a result of the FC3 installation bug with disk geometry and
LBA.

> Tim... 
> 
> 




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