Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > BTW: Out of interest: What is the history of the renaming of "fdisk" to
> >      "ddisk" on powerpc?
>
> I've no idea.  I'd never heard of this, in fact.  I bet it stands for
> DOS fDISK; it reads DOS partition tables and not Apple ones, and
> mac-fdisk supplies the 'fdisk' binary.

The fdisk binary provided by mac-fdisk is yet another DOS partition table
fdisk (from the days when fdisk wasn't endian clean I believe). The Apple
partition table editor has always been mac-fdisk.

I'd be happy to drop the DOS fdisk part from mac-fdisk BTW. util-linux
providing a working fdisk seems the more logical way to solve this
(though using the fdisk name might confuse the hell out of newbies that
read some intel specific documentation). Any objections?

	Michael