Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool
On 2019/09/05 12:27, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> If I'm correct and fdisk does indeed not let you do that then I'd rather
> maintain gdisk than have it removed from the archives since I somewhat
> rely on it for some of my users who have crappy^W more lower-end laptops.
I adopted this package today. It's description wasn't very clear on what
you'd use it for so I updated it to include some of its common use cases:
"""
GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning
tool that provides utilities for Globally Unique
Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks.
.
Features:
.
- Edit GUID partition table definitions
- In place conversion of BSD disklabels to GPT
- In place conversion of MBR to GPT
- In place conversion of GPT to MBR
- Create hybrid MBR/GPT layouts
- Repair damaged GPT data structures
- Repair damaged MBR structures
- Back up GPT data to a file (and restore from file)
"""
Probably not perfect but it is an improvement, packaging is on salsa now
so any further improvements are welcome there.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gdisk
-Jonathan
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