Re: mklabel wiped my partition table (hint: mklabel is not MSDOS label)

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:34:53AM -0800, Rico wrote:
> I think fdisk does a good job of having a 'w' command to commit the changes.
> 
> >From my experience: nothing hints to the user that s/he needs
> to print the partition table after every operation. The monitor is big enough
> to take quite a few commands before the display starts scrolling up and it's
> all too easy, after having printed the partition table once, to be lured into
> thinking that e.g minor numbers of partitions are still the same after 'rm'.
> 
> Prevention being better than cure, I like 'confirm commit' better than 'undo'.

We may in the near-to-middle future have a new cfdisk like front-end though.

Or you could use gparted, qtparted, or another front end, which does it like
you like.

Friendly,

Sven Luther