On 30 September 2011 16:32, Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 19:33, linux guy
<linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you
> know what you are doing.
This exemplifies the problem with FOSS software and the "here's the
recipe on how to fix it" culture, . Don't get me wrong, I'm not
throwing blame around, I just want to say that:
1. Instead of posting "recipes" on how to fix limitations of the
software, it'd be MUCH MORE helpful to FIX THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS
with the software, so that:
a. A BUG REPORT ON FDISK is entered, so that:
* It works correctly on drives bigger than 2TB, or
* (interim solution) it displays a user-friendly message telling the user
that for big drives as (the current drive size) gparted is the right way to
partition to avoid limitations in the FDISK software.
b. FILE A BUG on the automount routines, it should automount such
drive just like those partitioned with FDISK.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, fixing the problem and all corner
cases thoroughly may take a while, so being able to rapidly share a
solution which works is helpful. Otherwise we're talking about people
waiting for fdisk to be fixed and a new release rolled out (otherwise
applying a patch and building it yourself is not too much different
from following a recipe for operation).
--
imalone