Hi, currently we have fdisk cfdisk sfdisk in util-linux-ng, each one with mostly its own implementations of partition handling and other duplicates of functionality. cfdisk e.g. has its own filesystem detection stuff, which duplicates the fsprobe functionality again. This is rather annoying for maintenance. Also, as large devices (>2TB) are getting more and more popular, none of the tools support GPT. Recently I noticed the GNU fdisk project: http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/ This project provides clones of util-linux fdisk based on libparted. Currently there are interfaces for fdisk and cfdisk. AFAIK still missing is the sfdisk interface. As libparted also has support for GPT there is support for large disks. It might be worth a thought if it wouldn't be more effective to help providing the missing sfdisk interface and fix bugs on the GNU fdisk side than cleaning up the fdisk mess in util-linux-ng. Any thoughts about the future of fdisk in util-linux-ng? Matthias - 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
