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GNU Fdisk 1.3.0a released
Item posted by Christian <it_kristian_81> on Sun Sep 18 18:30:18 2011.
I am very happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.3.0 ALPHA.
GNU fdisk aims to replace various UNIX operating systems' legacy
partitioning tools with libparted-based ones that mimic the
interface of those tools.
Currently implemented alternatives are:
util-linux `fdisk'
util-linux `cfdisk'
Both versions have a compability mode and a GNU mode
that offers additional features.
NEWS
In this release we made some changes. Some of these changes
are bug fixes, other are changes to the behavior of GNU fdisk commands.
From the 3.0 release, libparted doesn't support file system operations,
so this feature was removed from GNU fdisk. We continue to support all the
operations, But we do not make any operation on the partition file system.
In detail:
We know that the function `resize' was important. But GNU fdisk (and GNU parted)
are programs that manage partitions; they do not deal with file systems. There
are some other programs that are specific for this.
DOWNLOAD
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
and its mirror sites. SHA1 sums may be found there as well.
The web site of GNU fdisk is at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/
CONTRIBUTING
You can help fdisk by
- testing and using the existing frontends
- developing more frontends (e.g. for Mac fdisk or util-linux sfdisk)
Leslie P. Polzer <polzer@gnu.org>
Christian Brunello <mail.kristian@yahoo.it>
GNU fdisk Maintainer's.
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