Bug 124732
Summary: | fdisk option for fdisk partitioning is not present | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | akopps |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.0 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-06-01 19:53:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
akopps
2004-05-28 21:39:27 UTC
This is intentional. It ended up leaving a horrible UI and users who know enough to understand fdisk also understand virtual terminals enough to switch to one to use if they absolutely have to. I don't mind switching to the alternative console but then I have to remember things like the major and minor char device numbers for say /dev/hda1 or /dev/sdb since for some reason those files are not present in /dev during installation. You'd be surprised how many people absolutely have to do it with fdisk given that certain partition layouts are plain impossible with disk druid since it tends to rearrange the actual order of partitions on the disk to its liking (which seems to be linked to partition size and such). My $0.02. |