Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 18:33:00

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

 >  DW> Now, it did also come with cfdisk set as the default partitioning
 >  DW> program back then.  Removing it and replacing with fdisk fixed
 >  DW> any issues.  ;)

 > That's funny, as I actually still use (and prefer) cfdisk...  Hahaha

 DW> I fat fingered something once and somehow wound up with two
 DW> partitions that overlaped and eventually caused a lot of system
 DW> errors, forcing a complete reinstallation of the whole system.

Oooof.  That doesn't sound fun.

 DW> When I reported it as a bug in cfdisk, I was informed that is
 DW> should allow you to make such mistakes and not even warn you
 DW> because that was "freedom."
 DW>  When I told them I was pretty sure that fdisk wouldn't let me,
 DW> and I knew that M$'s FDISK wouldn't, they got real mad.

Yeah, that seems a little silly on their part.

 DW> That was when cfdisk went bye-bye.  ;)

To be fair... it wasn't so much cfdisk's fault... as it was the jerkoffs 
giving you a hard time about it.  But I hear ya.  ;-)



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