On 12/30/2012 3:00 AM, Matt Burgess wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 21:40 -0800, Nathan Coulson wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I would like to propose adding gptfdisk to LFS. >> >> I do prefer it for it's simplicity over parted, but I think BLFS would >> be good enough for that tool. As nice as it is, we don't use fdisk >> or gdisk in LFS. (And in BLFS, we have the choice of parted or gdisk) > > I agree. We use the host's tools to create the partition layout for > LFS, so they can continue to be used should things need altering before > hitting BLFS. It looks like a useful addition to BLFS though. Maybe an > additional sentence or two in the note in > chapter02/creatingpartition.xml could point the reader in the right > direction for GPT and EFI partitioning schemes and related software?
FWIW, I also agree with Nathan and Matt. I also think that with so many disk partitioning software choices available that LFS should not choose *one* to put in the book. To me it takes away from the "Your distro, your rules" motto. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
