Re: [9fans] Re: [explanations] MBR messed up on installation

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:31:48AM +0200, Pawe? Lasek wrote:
> 
> At the moment, fdisk also redefines partition numbers, rearranging
> them as it finds them on the disk (So if you have first partition
> number 3, then number 1, then number 2, it gets changed to 1-2-3).
> 
> It would be a fine thing if Plan 9's fdisk would rather follow the way
> of GNU/BSD fdisk and _NOT_ touch any partition it didn't modify. While
> the usage of plan 9 named partitions makes it irrevelant to p9, many
> people have other OS on their hard drive which don't add another layer
> (like disklabel or LVM) or aren't configured to do so.
> 
> Booting another OS just to run fdisk isn't a good thing. Pity that I
> don't have access to a Plan 9 machine (or time) to prepare a patch for
> this :-/

I will probably take the task.

Just, as usual, a matter of time: I have to tackle with business needs
just in order to have incomes ;)

But I will try to dedicate a slice of time in June for this.
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