• madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • amlor@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        Yah, like I can understand a difficulty in partitioning from a newbie standpoint but I don’t think this template works here.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    191·
    1 month ago

    And I thought cfdisk was the easy “graphical” option compared to fdisk‽

  • renzev@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    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:

    • where you want to install

    • 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.