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and subject line fdisk is installed as ddisk on ppc
has caused the Debian Bug report #509188,
regarding package util-linux doesn't install fdisk on powerpc
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-19etch1
Severity: normal
I would like to view/edit dos/windows partitions on an external USB
drive. A default powerpc debian install installs the mac-fdisk package
to supply the fdisk command. However, mac-fdisk only supports apple
partition maps.
There doesn't seem to be any way to install the 'regular' fdisk on the
powerpc architecture. While I understand that mac-fdisk should be the
default /sbin/fdisk on this architecture, it would be nice if the
util-linux fdisk was also provided under a different name.
Thanks.
Kuno Woudt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (1001, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lib 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lib 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 universally unique id library
ii lsb 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii tzd 2007j-1etch1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time
ii zli 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-5.3
A not to well advertised thing is that (dos) fdisk is installed
as ddisk on PowerPC.
I've verified this on version 2.20.1-5.3, but maybe this was the case
earlier/always.
Since the bug was about making the tool available on PPC, I'm closing
this bug report.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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