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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2021-03-27 22:05:26 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2021-03-27 22:05:26 +0100
commit8521e875b49a3171c921d41ba865dffcd6ba6328 (patch)
treefbdb58e7f2b602534582c4364ce5febc792cf59b
parent50a325166780d860d82efb218822792b5dc2d7e0 (diff)
gnu: Add gpart.
* gnu/packages/disk.scm (gpart): New public variable.
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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")