On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to propose adding gptfdisk to LFS. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ > > It allows creation and management of GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks > using a fdisk type syntax. It's much easier to use than gnu parted. > > After using a GPT partitioned disk for a while, I recommend it over the > ancient BIOS/MBR partitioned disks. The package builds gdisk, cgdisk, > sgdisk (similar to fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk), and fixparts. > > The table looks like: > > # gdisk -l /dev/sdc > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 > > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: present > > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. > Disk /dev/sdc: 78165360 sectors, 37.3 GiB > Logical sector size: 512 bytes > Disk identifier (GUID): 1A083159-55E5-40A2-BC78-C269AB11A96E > Partition table holds up to 128 entries > First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 78165326 > Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries > Total free space is 299020 sectors (146.0 MiB) > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > 1 2048 23298000 11.1 GiB 8300 /opt for sdc2 > 2 23592960 44040192 9.8 GiB 8300 / for lfs-7.2-rc1 > 3 44042240 78165326 16.3 GiB 8300 / for svn-20121216 > -------- > When I created the first two partitions, I used GB instead of GiB so the > ending points created some small gaps. > > The package requires libuuid (from util-linux) and ncurses. > > There are some optional libraries (ICU library at > http://site.icu-project.org for unicode partition names) and sgdisk > requires popt. > > The build requires editing or patching the Makefile if the ICU or popt > library files are not available. Then a simple make. The executables > and man pages are installed with a simple cp. > > ----- > > The other alternative is to put the package in BLFS but that makes LFS > incomplete because it would not be available to manage a GPT disk by > itself. We could put it in both LFS and BLFS (for the optional > dependencies). > > Thoughts? > > -- Bruce
I do prefer it for it's simplicity over parted, but I think BLFS would be good enough for that tool. As nice as it is, we don't use fdisk or gdisk in LFS. (And in BLFS, we have the choice of parted or gdisk) although, if we do add it, I would recommend mentioning GUID 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649, Bios Boot Partition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table. On a gpt drive, that's the only place where you can install grub's bootsector. (And expanding further to the UEFI world, you would want a EFI System Partition instead [Using this setup on my home system], C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B. It was difficult finding all the info I needed, but https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2 gave me a working uEFI grub setup). The uEFI setup seems more like hint material, or BLFS though. Somewhere where it can be elaborated upon. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
