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0 pointsburgerbrain14y ago0 comments

"It's a critical filesystem utility."

Not anymore it isn't.

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nate_meurer14y ago· 1 in thread

I know it sucks having functionality you depend on be deprecated away. I don't have a good answer for that. What alternatives are there for managing FAT, VFS, or HFS?

Edit: sorry, not vfs. I was thing vfat, but that's not really relevant either.

burgerbrainOP14y ago

I don't really know. I haven't had to use it or anything else to preform those sorts of tasks for years to be honest. I just let Fedora (or whatever) format whatever disk I'm installing on as it likes. Of course I expect my usage is not typical, I also have a rather low amount of data that I keep around (below 15GB) so it's not really like I have complex disk needs. So this parted nonsense doesn't actually effect me, looking from the outside I just think it's dumb as hell.

I expect FAT/VFS/HFS/etc have an equivalent of e2tools. I never really used those FSs anyway.

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