Ubuntu and the missing fdisk command
Today I was trying to prepare an USB key for my son, so I opened a terminal on one of my (K)Ubuntu systems and tried to execute the well known
fdisk command.
The shell complained that there is no
fdisk command. Hurray! Linux has switched totally to
gpart!
Damn, no!
The problem is that Ubuntu does not consider
fdisk an useful program, so it does not install by default.
Gosh, Linux is becoming more and more difficult to use for me!
Clearly, the solution is to install the
fdisk package:
% aptitude search fdisk
p acorn-fdisk - partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines
p amiga-fdisk-cross - Partition editor for Amiga partitions (cross version)
p fdisk - collection of partitioning utilities
p libfdisk-dev - fdisk partitioning library - headers
i A libfdisk1 - fdisk partitioning library
% sudo apt install fdisk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fdisk
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 484 not upgraded.
Need to get 121 kB of archives.
After this operation, 401 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 fdisk amd64 2.39.3-9ubuntu6.1 [121 kB]
Fetched 121 kB in 1s (197 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package fdisk.
(Reading database ... 321291 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fdisk_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fdisk (2.39.3-9ubuntu6.1) ...
Setting up fdisk (2.39.3-9ubuntu6.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ...
Not building database; man-db/auto-update is not 'true'.
But for God’s sake, why is
fdisk not an utility anymore?
What’s coming next, will us be supposed to install
ls?
This is my last rant before Christmas…