| The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All |
| deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for |
| backward compatibility only. |
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| what: sfdisk --show-size |
| why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz" |
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| -------------------------- |
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| what: sfdisk --Linux |
| why: unnecessary option, only Linux (non-DOS mode) is supported |
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| -------------------------- |
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| what: sfdisk --unit |
| why: unnecessary option, only 'S'ector unit is supported |
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| -------------------------- |
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| what: "swapon --summary" output format |
| why: does not provide control on output data formatting. The recommended solution |
| is to use --show=<columns> in all scripts. |
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| -------------------------- |
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| what: "pid" as binary name for "kill --pid" |
| why: too ugly, too obscure |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: mkfs |
| Why: use filesystem specific mkfs.<type>. |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: fdisk -s <device> |
| Why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz" |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: 'udev' and 'list' blkid(8) output formats |
| Why: udevd links libblkid directly; the 'list' is unnecessary, use lsblk(8) |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: line(1) command |
| Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better |
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| What: pg(1) command |
| Why: use less(1) or more(1) |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: CHS stuff in fdisk (except SUN where are partitions addresses by cylinders only) |
| Why: use addresssing by sectors, CHS does not work with modern disks, |
| confusing for users... |
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| What: losetup -s |
| Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used |
| in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only. |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: losetup output format without --list |
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| deprecated format" |
| |
| # losetup -a |
| /dev/loop0: []: (/home/fs-images/swap.img) |
| /dev/loop1: []: (/home/fs-images/disk.img), offset 100 |
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| new format: |
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| # losetup |
| NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE |
| /dev/loop0 0 0 0 0 /home/fs-images/swap.img |
| /dev/loop1 0 100 0 0 /home/fs-images/disk.img |
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| What: tunelp |
| Why: parallel port printers are probably almost extinct devices |
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| -------------------------- |
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| What: deprecated_last(1) |
| Why: nobody uses this implementation |
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| ---------------------------- |
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| The Single UNIX(TM) Specification, Version 2 |
| Copyright (C) 1997 The Open Group |
| |
| Legacy utilities which are part util-linux package are: |
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| col |
| line |
| pg |
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| http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/intro.html#tag_001_003_003 |
