Matthew Stoltenberg schrieb: >>>> and sfdisk is a very nice tool to create partitions from scripts. beats >>>> parted. > > agreed... sfdisk is nice for scripted installs... I would be willing > to do a bit of testing for this. > >>> our fdisk should be massaged into an sfdisk. Would be handy IMHO, >>> agreed. >> interessting would be a tools that can handle disk >2TB. fdisk (and friends) >> cannot >> if i am informed correctly. This will make BB interessting for SAN. > > really? I think it wouldn't be that hard to use long long for pointers... > > course, on top of all this, we still would need a utility to put a > filesystem on there since e2fsutils got pulled from the package. >
The partition schema has problems with >2TB, so there is more that simply using a larger datatype, 2 TB is restriction of DOS partiton format. see here and others: * http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html re, wh _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
