| Port details |
- linuxfdisk Fdisk, a partition tables manipulator, from util-linux
- 2.11z_2 sysutils
=8 2.11z_2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. BROKEN: dangerous, unaware of GPT and alignments, causes write amplification and HW wear
DEPRECATED: Upstream distfile unavailable, way out of date, upstream distfile gone, use gpart instead.
This port expired on: 2025-09-30
IGNORE: is marked as broken: dangerous, unaware of GPT and alignments, causes write amplification and HW wear
- Maintainer: netch@netch.kiev.ua
 - Port Added: 2003-06-18 06:26:06
- Last Update: 2025-10-01 09:31:32
- Commit Hash: a7ccbef
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- License: GPLv2+
- Description:
- This is fdisk from util-linux package, common on Linux systems.
It allows interactive manipulation of partitions including logical ones
from MS-DOS partitioning scheme.
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- Manual pages:
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- linuxfdisk>0:sysutils/linuxfdisk
- No installation instructions:
- This port has been deleted.
- PKGNAME: linuxfdisk
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- SHA256 (util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2) = 8054e245b93df7061f8cb3ebe971e038ffd39a630b9c6ead654925a27961ee02
SIZE (util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2) = 1266784
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- This port has no dependencies.
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- No options to configure
- Options name:
- sysutils_linuxfdisk
- USES:
- tar:bzip2
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
2.11z_2 01 Oct 2025 09:31:32
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Matthias Andree (mandree)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: Remove expired port
2025-09-30 sysutils/linuxfdisk: Upstream distfile unavailable, way out of date,
upstream distfile gone, use gpart instead.
Linuxfdisk had been part of util-linux v2.11z as of 22 years ago. |
2.11z_2 29 Sep 2025 23:47:34
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Matthias Andree (mandree)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: Revert "extend port deprecation till end of the year"
This reverts commit 59a3050fa10b54ecda6711921730d6677500392a.
There is no discussion with me nor am I aware of "we", all I see is
that util-linux as a port was stuck, and neither it nor libblkid were
actually ported to FreeBSD - but all the while I was being asked again
and again to move e2fsprogs over to using the util-linux ports, which
seem to have caused regressions for util-linux's fdisk ports.
Now with the libblkid fixes enabling fdisk-linux from util-linux to
at least work on memory disks, let's reset this port to deprecation,
and sharpen the warnings. Using this 22-year old tool without
great care can damage GPT disks and be detrimental to performance or
make devices unable to be used on native 4K block sizes. |
2.11z_2 29 Sep 2025 18:12:18
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Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: extend port deprecation till end of the year
Suggested `devel/util-linux' port, while being more modern, comes
with broken fdisk(8) interactive mode and thus is not an adequate
replacement for the time being. We are currently discussing with
mandree@ how to move this forward and preserve working features. |
2.11z_2 06 Jul 2025 12:29:41
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Matthias Andree (mandree)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: deprecate, see util-linux
linuxfdisk is woefully outdated and installs scripts
that are installed in current versions by util-linux.
Deprecate and expire in three months. |
2.11z_2 26 Feb 2024 06:01:43
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Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: Moved man to share/man
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
2.11z_1 20 Jul 2022 14:23:05
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Tobias C. Berner (tcberner)  |
sysutils: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Landwehr <aaron@snaphat.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Adrian Chadd
* Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
* Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
* Alex Deiter <alex.deiter@gmail.com> (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
2.11z_1 17 Jan 2022 14:47:28
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Mikael Urankar (mikael)  |
*: Linux emulation: add support for aarch64
PR: 256008
Submitted by: Vincent Milum Jr (prior version)
Approved by: emulation (maintainer timeout) |
2.11z_1 09 Jul 2021 15:13:50
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Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: remove bogus ONLY_FOR_ARCHS limitation
There is hardly anything really architecture-specific about the disk
management program.
It was marked as working correctly only on i386 in 17b931398cd8 back
in 2003 without any explanation (albeit the phrase "bento via kris"
suggests that it could be a build failure on the cluster) by abusing
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS, which had only been added to since then.
While here, prefer ATA to IDE when talking to a user as nowadays IDE
falls out of common lexicon and means PATA disks particularly. |
2.11z_1 09 Jul 2021 10:34:41
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Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: the port had been further improved (+)
- When printing usage information, give proper references to the
programs installed by this port, to avoid possible confusion with
similarly named FreeBSD native ones
- Use modern /dev/adaX names for ATA disks in the examples rather
than legacy /dev/adX which do not exist since 2015
- Do not hardcode UTIL_LINUX_VERSION, its value is correctly passed
on the command line during the build
PR: 257071 |
2.11z_1 09 Jul 2021 08:03:42
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Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: use better PROC_PARTITIONS path on FreeBSD
Originating from GNU/Linux, this code had naturally defined the
PROC_PARTITIONS macro as "/proc/partitions", while we typically
mount this file system under "/compat/linux/proc/partitions" on
FreeBSD. Fix two (out of four) definitions which appear in the
generated executables, so e.g. `sfdisk-linux -s' would now work
correctly so long as linprocfs(5) is mounted. While at it, set
the LICENSE (GPLv2+) and bump PORTREVISION so users could enjoy
less buggy package.
PR: 257072 |
2.11z 15 Jun 2021 08:41:38
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Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj)  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: enable on armv7 and powerpc |
2.11z 06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
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Mathieu Arnold (mat)  |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
2.11z 28 Jan 2021 15:46:56
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pkubaj  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: enable on powerpc64 |
2.11z 27 Jan 2021 13:49:21
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pkubaj  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk: enable on powerpc64le |
2.11z 18 Nov 2015 06:28:39
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danfe  |
Unbreak `sysutils/linuxfdisk' after r276737, which removed DIOCGDINFO once
and for all; the code in `sys_bsd.c' is already using working alternatives
DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGSECTORSIZE except in sys_bsd_getgeometry(), but it
returns -1 for me even on stable/8. While here, clean up Makefile a bit. |
2.11z 29 Jul 2014 15:00:13
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adamw  |
Rename sysutils/ patch-xy patches to reflect the files they modify. |
2.11z 27 Jun 2014 03:57:17
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vanilla  |
Stagify.
Approved by: portmgr@ (blanket approval) |
2.11z 20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
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bapt  |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils) |
2.11z 25 Feb 2013 15:36:09
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pclin  |
- Update MASTER_SITES [1]
PR: ports/176415
Submitted by: Sayetsky Anton <vsjcfm@gmail.com>
Approved by: Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> (maintainer) [1]
Approved by: swills (mentor) |
2.11z 19 Mar 2011 12:38:54
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miwi  |
- Get Rid MD5 support |
2.11z 15 Jun 2009 18:55:42
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wxs  |
- Use MASTER_SITES_KERNEL_ORG
PR: ports/134566
Approved by: all maintainer timeouts |
2.11z 24 Jan 2006 01:06:45
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edwin  |
SHA256ify
Approved by: krion@ |
2.11z 15 Nov 2005 08:32:31
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sem  |
- Distfile was moved in old/ subdir. Add the URL and
add one more site because of ftp.kernel.org is poorly accessable.
PR: ports/89048
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev (maintainer) |
2.11z 30 Sep 2005 17:34:31
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pav  |
- Allow on amd64
PR: ports/84323
Submitted by: Adam Gregoire <ebola@psychoholics.org> |
2.11z 20 Mar 2004 21:03:41
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trevor  |
Add size data, approved by maintainers. |
2.11z 30 Jun 2003 04:45:20
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daichi  |
sysutils/linuxfdisk works correctly on i386 machine only.
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua>
Pointed out by: bento via kris |
2.11z 25 Jun 2003 05:14:46
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daichi  |
fix about build on alpha machine.
PR: 53666
Submitted by: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> |
2.11z 24 Jun 2003 08:03:36
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daichi  |
Update port: sysutils/linuxfdisk
PR: 53666
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> (maintainer) |
2.11z 18 Jun 2003 06:24:46
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daichi  |
Add linuxfdisk 2.11z,
fdisk, a partition tables manipulator, from
util-linux.
PR: 53379
Submitted by: netch@netch.kiev.ua |