[arch-releng] [RFC] [PATCH] [configs/releng] Add gptfdisk to live enviroment.

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Oct 21 12:05:30 EDT 2011


On 10/21/2011 03:36 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:27:29 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>
>> Image size in MiB:
>>
>> old -- new -- iso
>> 679 ->  693    core-dual
>> 374 ->  381    core-i686
>> 380 ->  387    core-x86_64
>> 309 ->  323    netinstall-dual
>> 182 ->  189    netinstall-i686
>> 185 ->  192    netinstall-x86_64
>>
>> Was requested: mailing-list and bugtracker.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
>> ---
>>   configs/releng/packages.i686   |    1 +
>>   configs/releng/packages.x86_64 |    1 +
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.i686
>> b/configs/releng/packages.i686 index 27db22c..5083750 100644
>> --- a/configs/releng/packages.i686
>> +++ b/configs/releng/packages.i686
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dnsutils
>>   dosfstools
>>   elinks
>>   gnu-netcat
>> +gptfdisk
>>   hdparm
>>   inetutils
>>   ipw2100-fw
>> diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
>> b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 index 27db22c..5083750 100644
>> --- a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
>> +++ b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dnsutils
>>   dosfstools
>>   elinks
>>   gnu-netcat
>> +gptfdisk
>>   hdparm
>>   inetutils
>>   ipw2100-fw
> I wonder when/if util-linux will come with GPT aware tools.
> If that will happen, I would rather use those tools, as I trust kernel people more.
> But as long as that hasn't happened, we can make our users happy by including "something".. like this.
> I see this also comes with 'sgdisk', do you know if the input for that is comparable to sfdisk input?
>
I do not know. Anyway, at this moment sfdisk and cfdisk still uses old 
cylinder aling method and should not be used.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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