On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:54:24PM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote:
> I agree with your arguments -- I didn't know about blkid (they don't
> discuss it on the e2fsprogs main page).
Blkid is needed by e2fsck and mke2fs, and it is also used by fsck,
which for historical reasons (mainly, because I wrote it :-), has
always been packaged in e2fsprogs.
There are actually a number of really useful libraries that are
packaged with e2fsprogs, including com_err and ss (used by Kerberos
and a number of other packages from MIT), libuuid (used by the GNOME
and KDE systems, as well as a number of others), and of course the
blkid library.
I actually ship an e2fsprogs-libs package which is just the e2fsprogs
libraries for people who need some or all of this libraries on legacy
systems such as Solaris, AIX, *BSD, Darwin, etc. And yes, I
periodically make sure e2fsprogs builds all of these systems.
Some work would be needed to allow libblkid so it could be used by
fdisk (basically, a programmatic interface so it could specify an
offset from the beginning of a file). I'd be willing to do that work,
if there was general agreement this is functionality that would be
accepted into fdisk.
I understand the general desire to make fdisk "simple", but being able
to display filesystem label would definitely make it much more
user-friendly.
Regards,
- Ted
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