Talk:Fdisk

message: Just as all the overwhelming HOW-TO details about the use of MS-DOS's FDISK (added by unknow user 69.177.103.53 on 14 JAN 2007) were removed by Admin. User:RexNL, I see no reason to keep all these details about OS/2 UNIX/Linux; which is arguably running on a very small percentage of computers today. Any comments before we revert back? to a short discussion of OS/2 partitioning?Daniel B. Sedory 08:58, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As it turns out, the detailed notes mentioned above had nothing to do with OS/2 at all... they were for the UNIX/Linux 'fdisk ' program; for which all the details can be found in a number of the external links cited here. Therefore the material has been removed, since it would be more appropriate for an e-BOOK on the subject, but not an article. Daniel B. Sedory 09:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove tedious details on 
about OS/2
 partitioning? 

message: Having recently read the article on Dd_(Unix), I propose placing a well-defined link under the section, UNIX, Linux and derived fdisks, to their own article: fdisk_(Unix). Unless someone has some deep concerns about this (and gets authorization to remove it), I'm going to create that new article very soon. I do not, however, know if doing so requires this present article to have a 'disambiguous' tag or not. Daniel B. Sedory 22:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solution: UNIX fdisk examples in new article 

message: Many of the external links here are 'dead' or malformed (see the very first link!), so any help fixing these would be appreciated. Daniel B. Sedory 09:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many broken links here! 

message: Can someone post an image of the FreeDOS FDISK to replace the copyrighted Microsoft screenshot? --Jtalledo (talk) 15:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[FreeDOS]] FDISK 

message: Right now i suspect fdisk (util-linux 2.20.1) writing stuff behind the MBR (but not necessarily after the beginning of the first partition). I'm sure this happend while i only changed the partition type from 7 to 83, while bootflag set(unchanged). Manpage only says fdisk "does fuzzy things" (and strangely recommends not to use itself ..). --Itu (talk) 16:38, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: After "fuzzing around" with fdisk very often I cannot appriove that. (typos above fixed)--Mideal (talk) 09:00, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  linux-fdisk writing things behind MBR 

message: The main focus of the article should be shifted to *nix (as fdisk is replaced for Windows in the meantime). Additionally, sfdisk, cfdisk and gdisk/sgdisk (for GPT partition tables) should be mentioned - there is already a redirection from gdisk but it not mentioned!--Mideal (talk) 09:00, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why I was being redirected to fdisk when I wanted to read about gdisk. Information about gdisk should be added soon.  Joel M.Chat ✐ 00:22, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linux 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Xfdisk. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 13#Xfdisk until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 15:57, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Xfdisk" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]