[TriLUG] disk druid from the command line?

Brent Fox bfox at linuxheadquarters.com
Thu Feb 14 01:26:23 EST 2002


Before Red Hat Linux 7.2, Disk Druid was based on libfdisk.  With the release 
of 7.2, Disk Druid uses GNU/parted as the backend.  I don't know about plans 
to make Disk Druid a stand alone tool, though.

Cheers,
   Brent



On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:06 am, Glen Ford wrote:
> Chris Merrill wrote:
> > Glen Ford wrote:
> > > I am trying to slice up a second drive on my system. It has too many
> > > cylinders for fdsik.
> > > I would like to use disk druid, but for the life of me I can not figure
> > > out howto start it.
> >
> > Have you tried parted?
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
> >
> > Also available in a handy bootable-floppy version :)
> >
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> Thank you. I will give it a try today.
> FYI the problem with fdisk is that my disk has too many cylinders for
> fdisk to cope with.
>
> /Glen
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