On 2019/09/05 12:05, Simon Richter wrote: > I believe this can be safely removed. The fdisk program has gained GPT > support since gdisk was written, so a separate tool is no longer needed.
I'm not sure they have feature parity, I've had to help a lot of people who had strange partition layouts (hybrid MBR/GPT) that was misconfigured, often on low-end Acer and HP laptops, and very often on refurbished laptops that were re-installed (or rather, imaged) with Windows on them, and the only tool that (I know of) that could fix these to reliably dual-boot these setups with Debian is gdisk. It allows you to convert between GPT and MBR, backup/restore your current layout easily or to set up a proper hybrid system (if you need it for whatever reason, Windows doesn't like changes). AFAIK fdisk doesn't let you do all of this yet. If I'm correct and fdisk does indeed not let you do that then I'd rather maintain gdisk than have it removed from the archives since I somewhat rely on it for some of my users who have crappy^W more lower-end laptops. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.
