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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:08 am    Post subject: /usr/bin/fdisk does not belong to any package?!? Reply with quote
As part of some (external) disk wrangling, I was using fdisk/sfdisk/gdisk/parted a lot.

The gdisk command was missing on a system upgraded from an older install, so I tried to see what package I would need.

Code:
eix gdisk
- nothing.

Maybe it's a gpt USE flag of fdisk, or such?
Code:
equery u fdisk
- no such package.

OK where is my /usr/bin/fdisk coming from?
Code:
equery b /usr/bin/fdisk
- no matching package.

My /usr/bin/fdisk is fairly recent (Sep 7, would match with last emerge @world etc).

How come it's (still) there, and works, but not owned by any package? 8O


(I've since found out that gdisk is part of sys-apps/gptfdisk, but that doesn't solve the mystery of the orphaned /usr/bin/fdisk)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I get:
Code:
$ equery b fdisk
 * Searching for fdisk ...
sys-apps/util-linux-2.39.4-r1 (/sbin/fdisk)
sys-apps/util-linux-2.39.4-r1 (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fdisk)

$ equery b gdisk
 * Searching for gdisk ...
sys-apps/gptfdisk-1.0.9-r3 (/usr/sbin/gdisk)

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
could be a merged-usr "problem".

There is also another alternative to find where a file/command comes from: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Pfl

Usable also without installation: https://www.portagefilelist.de/?fs=%2Fsbin%2Ffdisk#panchor or https://www.portagefilelist.de/?fs=fdisk#panchor
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fdisk normally belongs to

sys-apps/util-linux
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