On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Niels Rasmussen wrote:
Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:17:59AM -0500, skrev Nick Zentena:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, David Hamilton wrote:
I've just ordered Suse Linux 6.4 and I will be a first time Linux user. I'm quite happy to buy Partition Magic 5 if it's going to make life easier for me. I'd like to read some documentation on Linux Fdisk before I do though. Because I currently haven't got Linux, I can't read tarred and gzipped files ... and this is all I can find concerning Fdisk.
Does anyone know where I can get the Linux Fdisk documentation in a format (html, txt, zipped) that I can read please? Or could someone email it to me please?
Is there not a fdisk program inside windows allready ??
No, there is no fdisk program inside windows. There's an FDISK program. All caps so that it can feel superior in some way. It is quite unsuitable for use if you have anything in mind other than a plain, vanilla, SIMPLE installation of MS-DOS and/or Windows 9x. FDISK supports one primary partition and one extended partition (which contains virtual partitions). fdisk supports up to four primary partitions, or up to three plus an extended partition. FDISK supports a grand total of three partition types (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) and it decides for itself what type any partition is. It does not support changing the type of a partition. fdisk supports more than twenty partition types. While it creates all partitions with one type, you can then change any partition to a type of your choosing (assuming, of course, that you don't mind losing its contents). FDISK can't delete any other than the last partition on the disk, and it won't delete partitions it couldn't have created. (So, you CANNOT use FDISK to delete and re-create the first partition, while there is a second partition that you don't want to disturb. And you can't use FDISK to wipe Linux off a hard drive and free the whole thing for MS-DOS.) fdisk can delete any partition, except a secondary partition which currently contains logical partitions. In short, even if you only want to deal with Microsoft MS-DOS and kin, fdisk is a better tool for you than FDISK. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/