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    It scares a grown man (lemm.ee)
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    [–] renzev@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

    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.

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    cfdisk is fine

    Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.

    [–] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

    I prefer fdisk. Idk, the sort of linear nature and simplicity appeals to me. As opposed to a tui with more going on.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

    I wasn't even aware cfdisk existed. I've been using fdisk since the 90s. It works fine.

    [–] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Today I learned I'm a masochist

    [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

    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?)

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

    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.

    [–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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.

    [–] amlor@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    What?

    [–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

    Wrong parts of reddit are starting to show up on lemmy

    But I have been here for a year!

    [–] amlor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

    [–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

    Spoken like someone who doesn't have proper backups.

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

    cfdisk ? Shouldn’t fdisk be in the meme ?

    [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    And I thought cfdisk was the easy "graphical" option compared to fdiskβ€½

    [–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

    As someone who took 5+ attempts to install gentoo (did succeed btw), cfdisk was the first and easiest step

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Try growing up with fdisk.exe!

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Now that is scary

    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    And use edlin to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Gparted

    [–] Spider89@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

    GNOME Disks

    [–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Logical partitions?

    [–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 day ago

    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.