CentOS - Jun 2010 - Bug in cfdisk?

Hi,

I'm currently working through Sander Van Vugt's "Beginning the
Linux
Command Line" (Apress), just for fun. Right now I'm just trying out all
the examples in chapter 5, dedicated to managing partitions and logical 
volumes. After some work with fdisk (which I normally use), the book 
introduces cfdisk (which I've been using in Slackware days). Curiously 
enough, CentOS' cfdisk doesn't seem to work.

I'm experimenting with two USB sticks connected to an old NEC Powermate, 
which appear as /dev/sda resp. /dev/sdb. I can access them with fdisk OK 
and partition them any way I want. Except I can't seem to open them with 
cfdisk. When I try it, I get the following error message :

**************************************
FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek disk on drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk
**************************************

Now I don't really mind about that error, since fdisk does anything I 
need. But I'm just wondering about why that happens.

Any idea?

Niki

On 06/24/2010 05:24 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working through Sander Van Vugt's "Beginning the
Linux
> Command Line" (Apress), just for fun. Right now I'm just trying
out all
> the examples in chapter 5, dedicated to managing partitions and logical 
> volumes. After some work with fdisk (which I normally use), the book 
> introduces cfdisk (which I've been using in Slackware days). Curiously 
> enough, CentOS' cfdisk doesn't seem to work.
> 
> I'm experimenting with two USB sticks connected to an old NEC
Powermate,
> which appear as /dev/sda resp. /dev/sdb. I can access them with fdisk OK 
> and partition them any way I want. Except I can't seem to open them
with
> cfdisk. When I try it, I get the following error message :
> 
> **************************************
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek disk on drive
> Press any key to exit cfdisk
> **************************************
> 
> Now I don't really mind about that error, since fdisk does anything I 
> need. But I'm just wondering about why that happens.
cfdisk is not part of centos/rhel. and it's neither working for us...
but sometimes working...:-)

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