Package request: GPT fdisk (gdisk)

[cfr]

Please consider including the equivalent of fdisk etc. for GPT partitioned disks which are becoming increasingly common. Using fdisk etc. damages disks with this type of partition table. The current equivalent software (as far as I am aware) is GPT fdisk. I believe that the Debian package is called simply gdisk (which is also one of the main tools included). GPT fdisk offers more extensive tools than parted, for example, including a range of options specifically designed for data rescue and recovery, the ability to save and restore partition tables and probably a lot more I'm not aware of.

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

That sounds like a useful utility, but unfortunately it also pulls in libicu48, which is 22MB when installed (that represents over 5% of the entire Finnix distribution, pre-compression).

I'll leave this open in case it can be done in the future, but for now I don't want to add something thing large. Thank you for the suggestion though.

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

It's possible to build gdisk without libicu. See the second bullet point under "Installing" in the README file for instructions on compiling without libicu. Built in this way, partition names won't support UTF-16, but the program will be otherwise fully functional.

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

I am working on a system to better manage third-party compiled .debs for Finnix, but this will not be available in time for Finnix 105. Reassigning to 106.

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

gdisk has been recompiled without ICU support, and will be in Finnix 106.