On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > >> Thanks to your message I've spent some time playing with gpt today >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table >> and I now think there's a good case for putting gptfdisk into LFS. >> fdisk and cfdisk are installed in LFS but if you have a GUID partition >> table they're no use. I think gptfdisk should be in LFS. > > What about parted which is already in BLFS? > > Actually, I think BLFS may be good enough. We would need parted on the > host system. If we need it after we boot into LFS, it can be built via > BLFS. > > Also, util-linux plans to add GPT support into fdisk in version 2.22. > That's probably six months away. > > I'm open to gptfdisk, but would like to see more discussion. > > -- Bruce
for myself, I have always liked fdisk's style to parted, which is probably why I went to gptfdisk all those years ago. If I recall, parted has less control over the partition types then fdisk/gptfdisk (ex:/ I couldn't make a boot partition). that was a year or two ago though... but, if util-linux has this on their radar, I'd be content to wait for util-linux to bring it in. (or remove gptfdisk [if added]when util-linux has their support) either way, gpt is here now, and working. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
