Partition management is the single most chaotic chore that you come across as a casual computer user, change my mind. Depending on the partition table and filesystem, each filesystem can have zero, one or two labels assigned to it. But there is no consensus about what to actually call these labels. I’ve seen “partlabel”, “label”, “partition label” and “name” with no obvious way to tell whether the tool is talking about the label stored in the partition table or the label stored in the filesystem.
So just use UUIDs to refer to partitions instead of labels, right? Wrong! Each partition has both a UUID and a PartUUID which are not the same. It’s simple once you are aware of that fact, but if you are not, it can lead to hours of confused troubleshooting. I learned this the hard way.
Just always make paritions a unique size and use their size to identify them. I’m sorta joking because this is not a good solution, but also not because this is what i always do.
cfdisk is fine
Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.
I prefer fdisk. Idk, the sort of linear nature and simplicity appeals to me. As opposed to a tui with more going on.
I wasn’t even aware cfdisk existed. I’ve been using fdisk since the 90s. It works fine.
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.
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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What?
What?
cfdisk ? Shouldn’t fdisk be in the meme ?
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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Try growing up with fdisk.exe!
Now that is scary
And use edlin to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat
Gparted
GNOME Disks
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.
