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)
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What: line(1) command
Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better
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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 addresssing 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/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
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What: tunelp
Why: parallel port printers are probably almost extinct devices
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What: elvtune
Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9
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What: last(1)
Why: nobody uses this implementation
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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
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/intro.html#tag_001_003_003