Additionally having bytes, KiB, GiB would be nice, yes. I also tend to change 
my mind while looking at the screen. Or rather, I create and re-create 
partitions several times, fine-tuning the size by moving start and end, 
maximizing and putting on filesystems... Gparted isn't usable for me, it lacks 
precision. 

To get on-topic, an additional package with gnu (c)fdisk would be fine by me - 
provided that it does not clobber the names of other programs. How about 
renaming it, to gcfdisk, gfdisk and so on? But if I must choose between a known-
good program that did not change during the last 6 years and a new one with 
obvious bugs, I take the first one any time. ;)

I hope this will not become an either-this-or-that case, but if this happens, I 
hereby vote for the old package in advance.

* Mark <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080711 09:05]:

> Grml has superior package selections.  GNU cfdisk is one of them.  Please keep
> it.  Sidux 2008-02 (just released) has a Debian cfdisk version 2002 (6 years old!).

> That variant has few units (MB, sectors, cyl).  GNU cfdisk has bytes, KiB, KB,
> GiB, GB, etc.  This choice is extremely helpful.  I use dd_rescue to copy
> partitions and need byte precision for that.

> I loathe fdisk input/output operation because I change my mind while staring at
> the screen.  Fdisk gives nothing to look at.  Gparted shows bars, but lacks the
> byte precision of GNU cfdisk and needs an X session too.

> Unclear what the "annoying bugs" are...package problems?  Isn't that a Debian
> issue?  The program has always worked for me.  My favorite partitioning tool.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461888 is really
just a Debian packaging issue (though an annoying one), yes.

The main problem is:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445304

It was such an annoying problem that we even added it to our FAQ:
http://grml.org/faq/#fdisk

Sad situation. :-/

mfg,
-mika-

Grml has superior package selections.  GNU cfdisk is one of them.  Please keep
it.  Sidux 2008-02 (just released) has a Debian cfdisk version 2002 (6 years old!).

That variant has few units (MB, sectors, cyl).  GNU cfdisk has bytes, KiB, KB,
GiB, GB, etc.  This choice is extremely helpful.  I use dd_rescue to copy
partitions and need byte precision for that.

I loathe fdisk input/output operation because I change my mind while staring at
the screen.  Fdisk gives nothing to look at.  Gparted shows bars, but lacks the
byte precision of GNU cfdisk and needs an X session too.

Unclear what the "annoying bugs" are...package problems?  Isn't that a Debian
issue?  The program has always worked for me.  My favorite partitioning tool.

Yes, GNU fdisk has some annoying bugs (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/
bugreport.cgi?bug=461888 for my bugreport). gnu-fdisk will be removed again 
with the next release and won't be shipped again until the outstanding issues 
are resolved.

thanks for reporting,
-mika-

GNU cfdisk 1.0 does not show labels of partitions on /dev/hda. I mounted the
grml-64_0.1 partition (as /mnt/grml-0.1_64_iC2_, so the label was found and used
by the script that sets up the mount points) and started cfdisk 2.12r from there
- it shows all labels correctly. All partitions have been created with cfdisk
2.12 as "maximized", except  /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3. All partitions except
/dev/hdb8 contain filesystems with labels.
Possible solution: Use cfdisk 2.12r instead of GNU cfdisk 1.0.