On 08/24/2011 01:39 PM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 20:11, Karol Blazewicz
<[email protected]>  wrote:
- gptfdisk needs icu, another big package.

gptfdisk can be compiled without icu support, but this will disable
entering Unicode names in the partition table (and this is not
recomended by upstream).

[quote 
http://gptfdisk.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gptfdisk/gptfdisk;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD]
The ICU library (http://site.icu-project.org), which provides support for
   Unicode partition names, is recommended on all
   platforms except Windows. This library is normally installed in Linux and
   OS X, but you may need to install the development headers (libicu-dev or
   something similar in Linux; or the libicu36-dev Fink package in OS X). To
   compile without ICU support, you must modify the Makefile: Remove the
   "-D USE_UTF16" part from the CXXFLAGS line and remove references to
   -licuio, -licuuc, -licudata, and -licucore (details vary between
   platforms) from the compilation options. Suitable lines are present, but
   commented out, in the Makefile, Makefile.mac, and Makefile.bsd files.
[/quote]

parted does not offer finegrain control live gptfdisk does. If it did,
there would be no need to use util-linux fdisk for MBR disks and gdisk
for GPT disks.

Regards.

Keshav


OK, I agree then. Thanks for the info.

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