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ITP: gpart (my first package)



With the author's permission, I'm going to package gpart (it's GPL'd).  

Below is my proposed control file.  

One question (so far):  I think the executable belongs in sbin rather than usr/sbin, because it could be used to discover the location of a lost (and hence inaccessible) usr partition.  So should I just do that, or are there other considerations?  Thanks.

Source: gpart
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Maintainer: David L. Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0

Package: gpart
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
 Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. 
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 It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical.  It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them  (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.).
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 The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk device. 
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 Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: 
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      DOS/Windows FAT (FAT 12/16/32) 
      Linux ext2 
      Linux swap partitions versions 0 and 1 (Linux v2.2.X) 
      OS/2 HPFS 
      Windows NTFS 
      *BSD disklabels 
      Solaris/x86 disklabels 
      Minix FS 
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 Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules.


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