Re: [wlug] fdisk Versus parted

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:41:24 +1200, Michael Cree wrote:

Yes, I prefer fdisk, but the fact it no longer supports making BSD disklabels does detract somewhat from it.

The man page says “It understands GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition tables”. One minor irritation I found was when listing the available partition types. I had to set one relatively small (1MiB) partition of type “BIOS boot”, otherwise GRUB couldn’t install itself. But when I tried to find out what the code was for this, it scrolled off up the top of my text console. All I knew was that it was a small number. So I had to guess and try various small numbers until I hit on the right one.