We are happy to announce the new release of GNU Fdisk.
As reported in the previous release, the software has been
rewritten from scratch with a new design. With this release
we include a first backend.
The backend is written for GNU Linux, but it's easy
to put on a different platform.
We support MBR, EBR and GPT partition tables. We want
to add support for BSD disklabels. We are also considering
the idea of providing support for hybrid MBR tables.
We support Primary, Extended, Logical and GUID partition types.
We want to add support for BSD silces.
Unfortunately there is still no user interface, this is the step
for the next release.
Gzipped tarballs are available from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
We need much help. We want to complete the package providing
basic user interfaces (fdisk, cfdisk), please if you are familar with scheme
write to us.
We need help for documentation. We started a draft, but there is much to be done.
We need people who try to install the package and notify us of any problems.
We are happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 2.0.0 alpha.
In this new release we have made many improvements to fdisk.
The source code was rewritten from scratch with a new modular design that allows you to easily write new user interfaces and device backends.
The most important feature of this new implementation is that user interfaces are implemented using Guile.
GNU fdisk includes a Scheme interpreter (using libguile), and exports a set of symbols to manage devices, disklabels and partitions.
We can implement a new interface and use gnufdisk's functionality with it. With the help of FFI we can also implement interfaces in GTK, DirectFB, ncurses etc.
And the most important point is that we must only communicate with the user, everything else is handled in the core.
The core is written in C and is composed of 5 libraries and one executable:
The management operations are in separate modules. Modules are loaded dynamically when a device is created in software.
Each user interface can handle more than one device (using Guile variables), each one associated with a different module. The core is completely reentrant and there are no conflicts between devices (even in multi-threaded mode).
Unfortunately we do not have a module that manages the operations. We will start working on it now and will release it as soon as possible.
We do not have a user interface, but you can start gnufdisk in shell mode using command:
gnufdisk shell ARGUMENT...
This is the most powerful way to use gnufdisk.
Gzipped tarballs are available from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
With this new release we need much help. We want to complete the package providing basic user interfaces (fdisk, cfdisk) and a module for managing operations.
We need help for documentation. We started a draft, but there is much to be done.
We need people who try to install the package and notify us of any problems.
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.
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:
cmd | description | behaviour
| |
-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------------
| |
n | Create new partition. | Create a new partition with
| | specific options, but do not
| | create a file system on
| | the partition.
| |
v | Move an existing partition. | Change partition offset and update
| | partition table, but do not copy
| | partition data (file system).
| |
z | Resize an existing partition. | Chiange partition offset and/or size
| | and update partition table, but do
| | not copy partition data.
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.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
You can help fdisk by
Leslie P. Polzer <polzer@gnu.org>
Christian Brunello <mail.kristian@yahoo.it>
GNU fdisk Maintainer's.
I am happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.2.5
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.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
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.
I am happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.2.4
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:
Both versions have a compability mode and a GNU mode
that offers additional features.
In this release we have better readline/termcap configuration, and support for latest version of libparted.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
You can help fdisk by
Leslie P. Polzer <polzer@gnu.org>
Christian Brunello <mail.kristian@yahoo.it>
GNU fdisk Maintainer's
I am happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.2.3
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.
In this release we have support for libparted 1.9.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
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
I am happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.2.2
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:
Both versions have a compability mode and a GNU mode
that offers additional features.
In this release we have better configuration for systems where
libreadline is not found.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
You can help fdisk by
Leslie P. Polzer <polzer@gnu.org>
Christian Brunello <mail.kristian@yahoo.it>
GNU fdisk Maintainer's
I am happy to announce the release of GNU fdisk 1.2.1
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.
In this release we have fixed the problem with `make install'
and `mkinstalldirs' error.
Gzipped and b2zipped tarballs are available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fdisk/
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/
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