Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ] I could use fdisk. Just that on Slackware and Absolute, which I use, > ] you can only run fdisk as root. Sooooo -- I downloaded util-linux and > > makes it sound to me like you should be packaging abs_fdisk separately and > having linhdd Depend: on it; or, ideally, getting util-linux patched so > its fdisk can support the same features as abs_fdisk.
No, all you really need to do is to have linhdd depend on util-linux and use simply "fdisk -l /dev/sda". Works just fine, provided the user has read rights on the device (and if the user doesn't, it doesn't matter *which* program tries to read the data). -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
