Fdisk - MX18

[mxer]

Has anyone else experienced problems with fdisk(?), I was trying to reformat an old SATA 160GB drive yesterday, & it kept telling me it was only 4MB in size(!).

So I tried a couple of SSD 64GB drives, known to be good, & it told me that they too were only 4MB in size.

So I went to my AntiX installation, (17.4), & repartitioned the 160GB HDD on there, no problems.

Everything else on my MX18 installs seems to be working OK, so far, so thought this rather odd behaviour for fdisk.

[Fibogacci]

I prefer GParted (it's GUI).

So I did not experience problem with fdisk

[Head_on_a_Stick]

it told me

Can you post the actual command output? That might help illuminate the situation.

FWIW, fdisk(8) works fine in my Debian buster system:

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shinken:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON SV300S3
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x286ee55f

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1            2048 167774207 167772160   80G a6 OpenBSD
/dev/sda2       167774208 167839744     65537   32M 83 Linux
/dev/sda3       167841792 230756351  62914560   30G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4       230756352 234441647   3685296  1.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
shinken:~$

[mxer]

Hmm, just tried it with both the SSD I checked yesterday, & it's working fine now, everything I used, I tried yesterday - so must have been one of the updates that I received yesterday must have sorted it out.

Thanks for looking.

@ Fibogacci - I'm 'old school', I do most admin tasks via the command line.

[Fibogacci]

Hmm, just tried it with both the SSD I checked yesterday, & it's working fine now, everything I used, I tried yesterday - so must have been one of the updates that I received yesterday must have sorted it out.

Thanks for looking.

@ Fibogacci - I'm 'old school', I do most admin tasks via the command line.

I really like command line, it's a real pleasure for me to use it.

But for partitioning I use GParted. So I will try one day fdisk just for learning and for fun. New skill is always welcomed

[BitJam]

@ Fibogacci - I'm 'old school', I do most admin tasks via the command line.

You may want to give antiX a try someday. We've been working on making the command line more powerful and more fun. On the live system antiX-cli-cc (antiX Command Line Control Centre) is added to the bash history so you can get to it with <up-arrow>. You might be surprised by what is available. For example, cli-aptiX works like Synaptic in many ways but is based on the command line. For the tasks I do most often, I think it is actually easier to use.

Some of it is already in MX. Maybe there is (or could be) an MXPI entry to pull the rest of it in.

[mxer]

@Fibogacci
Don't stop at looking at fdisk, check out cfdisk too, you may like it better, both good command line tools.

@ BitJam
I've been a regular user of AntiX for several years now, preferring the 'base' version, but recently using 'full', (anti even made me a mod, but not liking the forum software, I don't visit as often as I should).

I have used 'core' a few times, & sometimes keep it around for fun.

But recently I've been having Firefox troubles, on several installations of 'full', it hangs after a few minutes, & I have to shut it down & restart it, then it's OK for my session, So, I thought I'd come & try MX again. Not getting so much trouble with the later version of Firefox used in it, so I might just convert my other machines, as I like to stick with basically just the one distro, & MX will 'keep it in the family'.

(P.S. My tag is 'fatmac' on the other forum.)

[BitJam]

(P.S. My tag is 'fatmac' on the other forum.)

Hey fatmac! I did not recognize you! Did you report the antiX Firefox problem?

PS: I agree with you that these forums are much easier to use.

[seaken64]

@Fibogacci
Don't stop at looking at fdisk, check out cfdisk too, you may like it better, both good command line tools.

@ BitJam
I've been a regular user of AntiX for several years now, preferring the 'base' version, but recently using 'full', (anti even made me a mod, but not liking the forum software, I don't visit as often as I should).

I have used 'core' a few times, & sometimes keep it around for fun.

But recently I've been having Firefox troubles, on several installations of 'full', it hangs after a few minutes, & I have to shut it down & restart it, then it's OK for my session, So, I thought I'd come & try MX again. Not getting so much trouble with the later version of Firefox used in it, so I might just convert my other machines, as I like to stick with basically just the one distro, & MX will 'keep it in the family'.

(P.S. My tag is 'fatmac' on the other forum.)

When I saw the topic I thought "fdisk?, I didn't know that was in MX?" I had used fdisk in DOS for years and cfdisk in linux. But I didn't know we had an fdisk in linux. Learned something new.

I also do not like the antiX forum software. Why can't we use the same software as we have here in the MX forum? I'm ignorant about such things. All I know is that I prefer the MX forum. And there is an antiX section. But we're not supposed to use that section as the antiX forum? I'm not sure how it all relates.

I have been using "Core" recently and staying away from the X. The music software works great. And I learned about several CLI apps from using the cli-aptiX package manager. Good stuff.

I'm a two distro user, antiX and MX. That's because I have a lot of old hardware and MX is best with better equipment. I use antiX for my systems with 1GB or less.

Seaken64

[mxer]

Hey fatmac! I did not recognize you! Did you report the antiX Firefox problem?

PS: I agree with you that these forums are much easier to use.

Didn't bother reporting it as I think it is Firefox itself, I get the occasional freeze on MX too.
(Just switch to a new tab & delete the locked one.)

Maybe there is a better browser, (Palemoon ?), but I'm just so used to using Firefox.