Re: [bug-fdisk] fdisk 1.2.5 compile error with libparted 3.x

[KESHAV P.R.]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 23:35, Christian <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Parted 3.x does not spport any filesystem operation and all FS support has 
>> been
>> removed.
>
> I suppose that if the gparted library does not support file system
> operations, we need to remove the management from GNU Fdisk too.
>

GParted does support filesystem operations, but it does not use
libparted for that. Right now because of removal of libparted FS code
and lack of alternative tools, there's no way to resize FAT 12/16/32
and HFS/HFS+ filesystems.

>
> Currently we are working on a new 2.x series. In this new release the
> code was written from scratch, considering all these critical issues.
>
> Unfortunately I can not tell when we are ready for a 2.x release. If you
> are interested you can find the code in this repository:
> http://bitbucket.org/_Christian/gnufdisk
>

I tried

aclocal
autoreconf
autoconf
./configure
<Makefile.in not found error>

A configure option to make sure the utilities do not conflict with
util-linux ones will be good. Does the 2.x version support all the
features of 1.x . Is 1.x deprecated?

Also since you are rewriting GNU fdisk, why don't you join hands with
util-linux guys (and maybe with Rod Smith for GPT support) instead of
reinventing the wheel. Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Keshav