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Why doesn't gdisk come with Ubuntu?

Asked by bluebomber

When I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10, all of my RAIDs came with me. To my great disappointment, I find that the gnome-disk-utility in 12.10 has had *all* of its RAID/LV creation and management features removed. As disappointed as I was to see that, I still will happily use the command line. But the command line partitioning tools that come with 12.10 (fdisk, sfdisk) do *not* support disks with GPT, only supporting MBR. I had to install the gdisk package manually.

Why are there so little built-in tools in 12.10 for managing GPT disks? Especially now that gnome-disk-utility does not handle RAID or LV management, I expected that the functionality was simply shifted to the command-line tools, but they weren't there!

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Parted supports it and so does gparted

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bluebomber (bluebomber) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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bluebomber (bluebomber) said : 		#3

Thanks. I was going by the accepted and much upvoted answer on a question on askubuntu.com in which the person recommended gdisk and sgdisk to accomplish the task, which, of course, do not come with Ubuntu.