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.
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.
What?
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.
What?
cfdisk is fine
Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.
I prefer fdisk. Idk, the sort of linear nature and simplicity appeals to me. As opposed to a tui with more going on.
Today I learned I’m a masochist
I wasn’t even aware cfdisk existed. I’ve been using fdisk since the 90s. It works fine.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have proper backups.
Gparted
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:
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where you want to install
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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.
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And I thought cfdisk was the easy “graphical” option compared to fdisk‽
