There's been some conversation about new packages in BLFS. There are a few which I use myself, but never suggested them until now as I never really considered them as useful in a pure LFS environment. (great for me, but most likely not blfs material.)
I thought I'd mention them though, if there was any interest. (I do admit, would be handy seeing them in BLFS) **dosfstools** http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/ http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/dosfstools-3.0.12.tar.gz (the .bz2 one seems to actually be gzipped) make && make PREFIX=/usr install comes w/ mkdosfs and dosfsck and dosfslabel **ntfsprogs** http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ http://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2012.1.15.tgz Optionally can use fuse, to install a ntfs fuse driver. (Which has better write support then the builtin kernel driver) ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install comes with ntfsfix ntfsinfo ntfscluster ntfsls ntfscat ntfscmp mkntfs ntfslabel ntfsundelete ntfsresize ntfsclone ntfscp [I use ntfsclone, and mkntfs] **gptfdisk** I suppose we already have parted for handing gpt in blfs, but this is the utility I prefer. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gptfdisk/gptfdisk/0.8.2/gptfdisk-0.8.2.tar.gz make && install -m755 gdisk cgdisk sgdisk fixparts /usr/sbin comes with gdisk (like fdisk), cgdisk, and sgdisk as well as fixparts [not sure what fixparts does yet]. It seems to want a library called icuio, and icuuc. I think it has to do with UTF16, but disabled in the Makefile to allow it to build. (patch attacked) ** Final Observations ** dosfs, I can see some use. efi partitions I believe are fat based, as well as some flash/usb media. ntfs,I use it for windows recovery/setup. not exactly what LFS/BLFS was designed for. gptfdisk, I suppose blfs has been doing fine without it until now *shrug*, and parted does the job just fine. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com
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