On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:54:24PM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote: > I agree with your arguments -- I didn't know about blkid (they don't > discuss it on the e2fsprogs main page). Blkid is needed by e2fsck and mke2fs, and it is also used by fsck, which for historical reasons (mainly, because I wrote it :-), has always been packaged in e2fsprogs. There are actually a number of really useful libraries that are packaged with e2fsprogs, including com_err and ss (used by Kerberos and a number of other packages from MIT), libuuid (used by the GNOME and KDE systems, as well as a number of others), and of course the blkid library. I actually ship an e2fsprogs-libs package which is just the e2fsprogs libraries for people who need some or all of this libraries on legacy systems such as Solaris, AIX, *BSD, Darwin, etc. And yes, I periodically make sure e2fsprogs builds all of these systems. Some work would be needed to allow libblkid so it could be used by fdisk (basically, a programmatic interface so it could specify an offset from the beginning of a file). I'd be willing to do that work, if there was general agreement this is functionality that would be accepted into fdisk. I understand the general desire to make fdisk "simple", but being able to display filesystem label would definitely make it much more user-friendly. Regards, - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
