cfdisk ? Shouldn’t fdisk be in the meme ?
CLI partioning tools are fine, just print the layout before finalizing the changes to make sure.
You know what is scary? Back in like 2009, the graphic drivers are not well supported and so you rum into weird glitches even during a live environment. For my particular case, a live Ubuntu install couldnt display the check boxes correctly. These checkboxes are pretty darn important:
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where you want to install
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do you want to delete your existing partitions? Very bad if you dual boot. …etc…
Cant see shit due to gliches so i just YOLO and hope for the best.
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cfdisk is fine
Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.
Today I learned I’m a masochist
Microsoft replaced fdisk with diskpart.exe in Windows 2000. I can’t imagine how bad the former must have been to warrant that switch. (Or was it super-early enshittification?)
Hey it’s okay, some of us get our masochism kick from butt-stuff. Some of us get it from using tools from the 70s.
What?
From other comments it seems like maybe they are scared of cfdisk? or this ‘linux user’ is somehow scared of ext4… or yea. What?
And of course, OP replies to you with a joke. I don’t think they even know what the joke is. There’s been a lot of anti-memes on here lately. Feels like the wrong parts of Reddit are starting to show up on Lemmy.
Yah, like I can understand a difficulty in partitioning from a newbie standpoint but I don’t think this template works here.
What?
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have proper backups.
And I thought cfdisk was the easy “graphical” option compared to fdisk‽
As someone who took 5+ attempts to install gentoo (did succeed btw), cfdisk was the first and easiest step
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Gparted
GNOME Disks
Try growing up with fdisk.exe!
Now that is scary
And use edlin to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat
Logical partitions?
BIOS/MBR limitation. You can only have 3 primary partitions which are directly bootable. All other partitions are logical, I.E. can’t be booted from BIOS if you had something to boot on them.
