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A partitioning tool.

• You may want the plain fdisk, or gdisk / cgdisk

• (and later)
• 2007-04-28 - 2.12r on PCLinuxOS 2007-TR4
• 2007-04-22 - (version not recorded; earlier than 2.12r) on Slackware 10.0

• (and earlier)

2007-04-28 - 2.12r ∞

It blanks the screen entirely when it exits .. which is bloody annoying since I rely on the cfdisk map of partitions to mkfs them afterwards.

Annoying partition hiccup ∞

Produced but not reproduced in PCLinuxOS 2007-TR4 and cfdisk v2.12r.

This is what the hdd's partitioning was like:

sda1                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris                 8.23
sda2                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris              1003.49
sda3        Boot        Primary   Linux ext3                        5000.98
sda5                    Logical   Linux ext3                          16.46
sda6                    Logical   Linux ext3                        1003.49
sda7                    Logical   Linux ext3                        1998.75
sda8                    Logical   Linux ext3                        1003.49
sda9                    Logical   Linux ext3                        3002.23
sda10                   Logical   Linux ext3                        1003.49
sda11                   Logical   Linux ext3                        1003.49
sda12                   Logical   Linux ext3                      235004.48
sda13                   Logical   Linux ext3                       70021.81

My goal was to delete sda3-11 and recreate some of the partitions like this:

From memory, they would have looked like this:

sda1                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris                 8.23
sda2                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris              1003.49
sda3        Boot        Primary   Linux ext3                          16.46
sda5                    Logical   Linux ext3                         100 MB
sda6                    Logical   Linux ext3                         200 MB
sda7                    Logical   Linux ext3                        1000 MB
sda8                    Logical   Linux ext3              (everything else)
sda9                    Logical   Linux ext3                      235004.48
sda10                   Logical   Linux ext3                       70021.81

I wrote to disk, did not reboot, and did some mkfs -j action on sda3 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 and I don't remember seeing any errors.

I checked cfdisk again, and this is what the primary hdd's partitioning had become:

sda1                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris                 8.23
sda2                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris              1003.49
sda3        Boot        Primary   Linux ext3                          16.46
                        Pri/Log   Free Space                      319042.17

The partitions I had created had vanished.

To restore my partitions, I downloaded the binary for TestDisk and it worked just fine.

How did this happen? Well, it's because I didn't reboot after shuffling my partitions around; whoops!

2007-04-22 - (version not recorded; earlier than 2.12r) ∞

When exiting, the exit message should be printed 2 lines lower, so as to not intermingle with the UI text.

Last updated 2021-01-12 at 14:54:05