On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:09:11 +0530 "KESHAV P.R." <skodabenz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 20:11, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
- gptfdisk needs icu, another big package.
gptfdisk can be compiled without icu support, but this will disable entering Unicode names in the partition table (and this is not recomended by upstream).
[quote http://gptfdisk.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gptfdisk/gptfdisk;a=blo...] The ICU library (http://site.icu-project.org), which provides support for Unicode partition names, is recommended on all platforms except Windows. This library is normally installed in Linux and OS X, but you may need to install the development headers (libicu-dev or something similar in Linux; or the libicu36-dev Fink package in OS X). To compile without ICU support, you must modify the Makefile: Remove the "-D USE_UTF16" part from the CXXFLAGS line and remove references to -licuio, -licuuc, -licudata, and -licucore (details vary between platforms) from the compilation options. Suitable lines are present, but commented out, in the Makefile, Makefile.mac, and Makefile.bsd files. [/quote]
parted does not offer finegrain control live gptfdisk does. If it did, there would be no need to use util-linux fdisk for MBR disks and gdisk for GPT disks.
Regards.
Keshav
I wonder when there will be a gpt program included in util-linux. I trust the kernel guys more than Gnu (Parted) or a 3rd party. And all other filesystem stuff done by AIF depends on Linux utilities anyway. Dieter