Talk:Cfdisk

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not functionally equivalent; fdisk is more mature and reliable than cfdisk&mdash;Trevor Caira 14:44, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Not according to the fdisk 2.12p man-page: "There are  several  *fdisk programs around.  Each has its problems and strengths.  Try them in the  order  cfdisk,  fdisk,  sfdisk.   (Indeed, cfdisk  is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts, and produces high quality  partition  tables. Use  it  if you can.  fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy things usually it happens to produce reasonable results. [...])"


 * Funny, due to incredible amount of bugs (misreading existing partitions, creating corrupt partitions etc) it has been removed from at least one linux distro (Redhat). I guess everyone has his own view of cfdisk ;-) --Xerces8 (talk) 12:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Here is the removal documented. If they readded it later, someone say so. --Xerces8 (talk) 12:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Untitled 2
Who is the author of cfdisk? Is it Kevin E. Martin? -- Sy / (talk) 12:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Status as of early 2011
In 2010, hard drives with 4 KB sector sizes have been introduced. Besides, with the increasing size of hard drives, partition table formats such as GPT and partition best practices have evolved, the tendency being to ditch support for CHS geometries and align partitions on 1 MB boundaries.


 * parted has evolved to support all of that
 * fdisk has evolved to support most of that (still doesn't do GPT)
 * cfdisk has not evolved (not yet?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.67.126.180 (talk) 06:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Version number
I don't think the version number of util-linux should be included in this article, cfdisk itself doesn't have a version number.

- Flori4nK T A L K  16:16, 15 March 2020 (UTC)