Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

on 05/12/2009 09:36 AM jdd wrote:

> I'm (re)writing the Partition HOWTO and I notice
> (http://wiki.tldp.org/Partition-Mass-Storage-Tools-HOWTO#fdisk):
>
> ¨There are at least three nearly identical fdisk on Linux, GNU fdisk
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/), based on parted, the kernel
> fdisk with no home page but a ftp
> (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/) and a fork
> util-linux-ng (http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/). ¨
>
> I noticed that openSUSE one is the ¨ng¨ flavor. May I ask what did
> make the choice?

The name might be misleading. util-linux-ng is the "official" upstream
place for util-linux development now. It was started by the distro
maintainers (ours for instance) and some others to cooperate on
util-linux again. Upstream was dead since years before that. So there
are only 2 versions of the fdsik tool. GNU fdisk and the one from
util-linux. As you correctly noted the GNU one is based on the parted
lib the one in util-linux is not. We are not using the GNU one because
of the dependency on the rather large libparted. So to keep it small.

> Do somebody knows why there are so many fdisk on the
> beginning?

Well the GNU "fork" wants to bring up fdisk to speed with all the
features you get with libparted. util-linux does not want to pull in
that library. Thats the reason you have two "versions".

Henne

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