[BusyBox] Re: Last busybox documentation update

[Marc Nijdam]

Agree completely. fdisk is only useful (from my tunnelvision embedded
developer viewpoint ;) for rescue floppies and initially creating the
partitions for the embedded target. I usually nfsmount a big 'ol
installation from the embedded target to get access to the full-blown
development utilities that I need (includes vi, bash...)

Just my .02

Marc

jonm at bluemug.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:22:05PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Jul 07, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > >
> > > I plan on just using the full blown one from util-linux.  Anything else is
> > > going to just cause grief I suspect.  I have already started working on getting
> > > this merged in.
> >
> > Hmm.  The more I poke at this, the more I suspect that perhaps fdisk
> > shouldn't live in busybox at all.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I tend to agree. In most embedded situations, you're going to be dealing with
> a system where the disks and partitions are already setup, and don't need to
> be messed with.
> 
> Of course, that's from the embedded user's perspective. There's the other side
> of the coin, which is the rescue/boot floppy crowd. But I think those folks
> will generally want a full-featured fdisk.
> 
> darkhawk:~/util-linux-2.10f/fdisk> wc *.c *.h
> [filelist cut]
>   11049   39440  300124 total
> 
> And at over eleven thousand lines of code, it's more than a quarter the size
> of BusyBox. I don't think it really belongs...
> 
> -Jon
> 
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