Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:39PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm writing a new http://wiki.tldp.org/Partition-Mass-Storage-Tools-HOWTO
>
> and so do a scan of the various partitionning tools available.
>
> 1) I noticed that openSUSE only provide util-linux fdisk (kernel) when
>  the prefered one seems to be GNU-fdisk, parted based fdisk
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/).
>
> is there any important reason to do so?
>
> 2) Is the YaST partitionner based on parted? if not, are the libraries
> specific or coming from...?

Yes, YaST uses exclusively parted (as external program, not as a
library) for partitioning.

ciao Arvin

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Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@xxxxxxx>
Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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