linHDD Changelog
linHDD
Hard Drive utility
(c)2005-2009 by Paul Sherman
Sunday, 11/15/2009
Version 0.9
Various undocumented tweaks culminating in es and gl translations by
GALPon MiniNo Developers Team.
Saturday, 08/11/2007
0.4 release now includes a customized version of fdisk (called abs_fdisk).
Why? Well, dealing 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