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diff --git a/gnu/packages/disk.scm b/gnu/packages/disk.scm index 81197c9cc2..6b9a9e4812 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/disk.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/disk.scm @@ -302,6 +302,58 @@ fdisk. fdisk is used for the creation and manipulation of disk partition tables, and it understands a variety of different formats.") (license license:gpl3+))) +(define-public gpart + ;; The latest (0.3) release is from 2015 and is missing a crash fix. + (let ((commit "ec03350a01ad69708b5a3e2d47b8e002b0eba6c9") + (revision "0")) + (package + (name "gpart") + (version (git-version "0.3" revision commit)) + (source + (origin + (method git-fetch) + (uri (git-reference + (url "https://github.com/baruch/gpart") + (commit commit))) + (file-name (git-file-name name version)) + (sha256 + (base32 "1dassswliaiwhhmx7yz540yyxgk53fvg672dbvgc5q0v6cqrh5jx")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments + `(#:configure-flags + (list (string-append "--docdir=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/share/doc/" + ,name "-" ,version)) + #:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'unpack 'skip-premature-configuration + (lambda _ + (substitute* "autogen.sh" + (("\\./configure") ""))))))) + (native-inputs + `(("autoconf" ,autoconf) + ("automake" ,automake))) + (home-page "https://github.com/baruch/gpart") + (synopsis "Guess and recover PC-style partition tables") + (description + "Gpart tries to guess the partitions on a PC-style, MBR-partitioned disk +after they have been inadvertently deleted or the primary partition table at +sector 0 damaged. In both cases, the contents of these partitions still exist +on the disk but the operating system cannot access them. + +Gpart ignores the partition table and scans each sector of the device or image +file for several known file system and partition types. Only partitions which +have been formatted in some way can be recognized. Several file system guessing +modules are built in; more can be written and loaded at run time. + +The guessed table can be restored manually, for example with @command{fdisk}, +written to a file, or---if you firmly believe it's entirely correct---directly +to disk. + +It should be stressed that gpart does a very heuristic job. It can easily be +right in its guesswork but it can also be terribly wrong. Never believe its +output without any plausability checks.") + (license license:gpl2+)))) + (define-public gptfdisk (package (name "gptfdisk") |