linHDD Changelog

linHDD
Hard Drive utility
(c)2005-2007 by Paul Sherman

	Saturday, 08/11/2007

		0.4 release now includes a customized version of fdisk (called abs_fdisk). 
		Why? Well, daealing with SATA (scsi) in /proc was a bear -- and the ease 
		with which fdisk gave me the needed drive info made me wish I could use fdisk. 
		Just that on Slackware and Absolute, which I use, you can only run fdisk as 
		root. Sooooo -- I downloaded util-linux and changed the source code for fdisk 
		so that it would not srite anythig to drives, just return the drive info. 
		Renamed it abs_fdisk (because I wrote it sort of specifically for Absolute 
		Linux, and Eureka!, Use fdisk as non-root user safely.

		Seemed to have left in an fdisk call for drive info after running, (a 
		refresh after using some other utility funtion) which would have given no 
		info to users. I fixed that.

		Also changed hdparm call to use -I switch, rather than -i, which should 
		yield info for drives connected after system boot. Including USB sticks.

		Added vfat (FAT32) formatting ability via mkdosfs, for those USB sticks.



	Sunday, 03/25/2007

		version 0.3
		Fixed error parsing output from DF on 
		somne machines that had long output strings.
		Simply parsed output of df -P, which formats 
		output into 6 columns fixed the error.
		


	Friday, 09/16/2005

		version 0.2
		Bug fix - initialization failed on at 
		least one machine due to lack of error
		trapping on my part.



	Wednesday, 09/14/2005

		version 0.1
		Initial release