Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool
On 2019/09/05 12:05, Simon Richter wrote:
> I believe this can be safely removed. The fdisk program has gained GPT
> support since gdisk was written, so a separate tool is no longer needed.
I'm not sure they have feature parity, I've had to help a lot of people
who had strange partition layouts (hybrid MBR/GPT) that was
misconfigured, often on low-end Acer and HP laptops, and very often on
refurbished laptops that were re-installed (or rather, imaged) with
Windows on them, and the only tool that (I know of) that could fix these
to reliably dual-boot these setups with Debian is gdisk. It allows you
to convert between GPT and MBR, backup/restore your current layout
easily or to set up a proper hybrid system (if you need it for whatever
reason, Windows doesn't like changes). AFAIK fdisk doesn't let you do
all of this yet.
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.
-Jonathan
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