SysAdmin Adventures » fdisk http://blog.tpa.me.uk Tech notes from a Systems Administrator Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:09:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 gdisk: fdisk for GPT http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/28/gdisk-fdisk-for-gpt/ http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/28/gdisk-fdisk-for-gpt/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:18:04 +0000 Zordrak http://blog.tpa.me.uk/?p=171 I finally found a basic fdisk-like utility for dealing with GUID Partition Tables (GPT). And not a moment too soon because I can’t stand GNU Parted which seems to be the only other tool available for handling them. I really wish I understood why because GPT is hardly brand-new. fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk are WELL overdue for an upgrade.

It’s called (unsurprisingly) gdisk:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/

I haven’t bothered making a SlackBuild for it right now, because it’s too simple to bother. Download the source, extract it, type make and there’s your binary. Move it to /sbin if you want.

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