Edit File: deprecated.txt
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. What: 'udev' and 'list' blkid(8) output formats Why: udevd links libblkid directly; the 'list' is unnecessary, use lsblk(8) -------------------------- What: line(1) command Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better -------------------------- What: pg(1) command Why: use less(1) or more(1) -------------------------- 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... -------------------------- 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. -------------------------- What: losetup output format without --list deprecated format" # losetup -a /dev/loop0: []: (/home/fs-images/swap.img) /dev/loop1: []: (/home/fs-images/disk.img), offset 100 new format: # 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 -------------------------- What: tunelp Why: parallel port printers are probably almost extinct devices -------------------------- What: elvtune Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9 --------------------------- What: last(1) Why: nobody uses this implementation ---------------------------- The Single UNIX(TM) Specification, Version 2 Copyright (C) 1997 The Open Group Legacy utilities which are part util-linux package are: col line pg http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/intro.html#tag_001_003_003