/usr/bin/fdisk does not belong to any package?!?

[jmbreuer]

As part of some (external) disk wrangling, I was using fdisk/sfdisk/gdisk/parted a lot.

The gdisk command was missing on a system upgraded from an older install, so I tried to see what package I would need.

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eix gdisk

- nothing.

Maybe it's a gpt USE flag of fdisk, or such?

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equery u fdisk

- no such package.

OK where is my /usr/bin/fdisk coming from?

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equery b /usr/bin/fdisk

- no matching package.

My /usr/bin/fdisk is fairly recent (Sep 7, would match with last emerge @world etc).

How come it's (still) there, and works, but not owned by any package?


(I've since found out that gdisk is part of sys-apps/gptfdisk, but that doesn't solve the mystery of the orphaned /usr/bin/fdisk)

[pietinger]

I get:

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$ equery b fdisk
 * Searching for fdisk ... 
sys-apps/util-linux-2.39.4-r1 (/sbin/fdisk)
sys-apps/util-linux-2.39.4-r1 (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fdisk)

$ equery b gdisk
 * Searching for gdisk ... 
sys-apps/gptfdisk-1.0.9-r3 (/usr/sbin/gdisk)

[Banana]

could be a merged-usr "problem".

There is also another alternative to find where a file/command comes from: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Pfl

Usable also without installation: https://www.portagefilelist.de/?fs=%2Fs ... sk#panchor or https://www.portagefilelist.de/?fs=fdisk#panchor

[dmpogo]

fdisk normally belongs to

sys-apps/util-linux

[jmbreuer]

Thank you all!

Hmmm, so sys-apps/util-linux does provide /sbin/fdisk (et al), and:

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$ ls -l /usr/bin/fdisk /sbin/fdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166032 Aug  2 18:29 /sbin/fdisk*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166032 Aug  2 18:29 /usr/bin/fdisk*

(cmp also says they're the same).

... why is there another exact - and recent, I certainly didn't do any merge-usr shenanigans since August - copy of /sbin/fdisk in /usr/bin/fdisk...? Aah, because /sbin now is a symlink to /usr/bin! ...

Should util-linux really be installing there, then?

[Hu]

If /sbin is a symlink to /usr/bin, then you are on a merged-usr profile. What is the output of eselect profile show ; namei -l /{,usr/}{,s}bin?

What do you think util-linux is doing wrong here?