cfdisk ou fdisk?

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Enquanto lia a man page de fdisk , encontrei este texto interessante:

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 parti‐ tion 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. Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only -- the user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)

Noto que os formatos das opções não são os mesmos para os dois aplicativos:

 - melancholy():/$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00036f1b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    39063551    19530752   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        39063552   976771071   468853760   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00085251

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1            2048    15624191     7811072   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2   *    15624192    64452607    24414208   83  Linux
/dev/sdc3        64454654  1953523711   944534529    5  Extended
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdc5        64454656  1953523711   944534528   83  Linux
 - melancholy():/$ sudo cfdisk -l
cfdisk: invalid option -- 'l'

Usage:
Print version:
        cfdisk -v
Print partition table:
        cfdisk -P {r|s|t} [options] device
Interactive use:
        cfdisk [options] device

Options:
-a: Use arrow instead of highlighting;
-z: Start with a zero partition table, instead of reading the pt from disk;
-c C -h H -s S: Override the kernel's idea of the number of cylinders,
                the number of heads and the number of sectors/track.

Copyright (C) 1994-2002 Kevin E. Martin & aeb

Existe um mérito real em usar cfdisk em vez de fdisk , ou a página man observa uma observação histórica que não é mais válida? Como fdisk funciona bem para listar informações dos discos ( -l flag) devo usar cfdisk apenas para alterar as partições e as tabelas de partições? Quais são os verdadeiros pontos strongs e fracos de cada aplicativo?

    

Answer 1

cfdisk é uma aplicação gráfica criada para ser mais amigável ao principiante. Se você estiver confortável com fdisk , então, por todos os meios, use-o. Se você preferir um pouco mais de mãos dadas e menos opções (avançadas), use cfdisk . Outra boa alternativa é o GNU parted .