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Deprecated Commands and Features List

The document lists deprecated commands and features, providing reasons for their deprecation and suggesting alternatives. Notable changes include renaming options for commands like 'column' and 'hwclock', as well as the removal of unnecessary options in 'sfdisk' and 'fdisk'. The document emphasizes backward compatibility while indicating that these utilities are in maintenance mode only.

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Deprecated Commands and Features List

The document lists deprecated commands and features, providing reasons for their deprecation and suggesting alternatives. Notable changes include renaming options for commands like 'column' and 'hwclock', as well as the removal of unnecessary options in 'sfdisk' and 'fdisk'. The document emphasizes backward compatibility while indicating that these utilities are in maintenance mode only.

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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: column --table-empty-lines


why: renamed to --keep-empty-lines
since: v2.37

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what: hwclock --debug


why: renamed to --verbose, and may be repurposed later.
since: v2.32

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what: hwclock -v for version


why: renamed to -V
since: v2.20 (was repurposed to verbose in v2.32)

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what: column --columns


why: renamed to --output-width
since: v2.30

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what: sfdisk --show-size


why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz"

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what: sfdisk --Linux


why: unnecessary option, only Linux (non-DOS mode) is supported

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what: sfdisk --unit


why: unnecessary option, only 'S'ector unit is supported

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what: sfdisk --show-pt-geometry


why: equal to --show-geometry for a long time

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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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What: mkfs
Why: use filesystem specific mkfs.<type>.

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What: fdisk -s <device>
Why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz"

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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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What: line(1) command


Why: use the read(1) command

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What: pg(1) command


Why: use less(1) or more(1)

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What: CHS stuff in fdisk (except SUN where are partitions addresses by cylinders
only)
Why: use addressing 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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What: losetup output format without --list

deprecated format:

# losetup -a
/dev/loop0: []: (/home/fs-images/[Link])
/dev/loop1: []: (/home/fs-images/[Link]), offset 100

new format:

# losetup
NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
/dev/loop0 0 0 0 0 /home/fs-images/[Link]
/dev/loop1 0 100 0 0 /home/fs-images/[Link]

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What: tunelp
Why: parallel port printers are probably almost extinct devices

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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:

col
line
pg

[Link]

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