Bug 811787

Summary:	remove fdisk from installer/rescue image
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	joshua
Component:	lorax	Assignee:	Martin Gracik <mgracik>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	bcl, dmach, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mgracik, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description joshua 2012-04-12 01:10:56 UTC

Description of problem:

fdisk doesn't address most of today's new disks or GPTs.  Please remove it from the installer


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All Fedora 17 installer / rescue images

Comment 1 Brian Lane 2012-04-12 14:27:50 UTC

fdisk is part of a larger package of tools and is very likely to be needed by some that don't need all of gdisk's functionality. I don't see any benefit in removing it.

Comment 2 joshua 2012-04-12 14:58:37 UTC

Interesting.  I thought though that parted did everything that fdisk did... does it not?

Comment 3 Brian Lane 2012-04-12 16:42:57 UTC

More. But I'm sure there are still people who expect fdisk to be available, either for rescue or for use in kickstarts.

Comment 4 Martin Gracik 2012-04-13 07:51:58 UTC

I like fdisk.