Documentation/deprecated.txt

   1 The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated.  All
   2 deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for
   3 backward compatibility only.
   4
   5 What:   'udev' and 'list' blkid(8) output formats
   6 Why:    udevd links libblkid directly; the 'list' is unnecessary, use lsblk(8)
   7
   8 --------------------------
   9
  10 What:   line(1) command
  11 Why:    useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better
  12
  13 --------------------------
  14
  15 What:   pg(1) command
  16 Why:    use less(1) or more(1)
  17
  18 --------------------------
  19
  20 What:   CHS stuff in fdisk (except SUN where are partitions addresses by cylinders only)
  21 Why:    use addresssing by sectors, CHS does not work with modern disks,
  22         confusing for users...
  23
  24 --------------------------
  25
  26 What:   losetup -s
  27 Why:    the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used
  28         in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only.
  29
  30 --------------------------
  31
  32 What:   losetup output format without --list
  33
  34         deprecated format"
  35
  36           # losetup -a
  37           /dev/loop0: []: (/home/fs-images/swap.img)
  38           /dev/loop1: []: (/home/fs-images/disk.img), offset 100
  39
  40         new format:
  41
  42           # losetup
  43           NAME       SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
  44           /dev/loop0         0      0         0  0 /home/fs-images/swap.img
  45           /dev/loop1         0    100         0  0 /home/fs-images/disk.img
  46
  47 --------------------------
  48
  49 What:   tunelp
  50 Why:    parallel port printers are probably almost extinct devices
  51
  52 --------------------------
  53
  54 What:   elvtune
  55 Why:    useless for kernel >= 2.6.9
  56
  57 ---------------------------
  58
  59 What:   last(1)
  60 Why:    nobody uses this implementation
  61
  62 ----------------------------
  63
  64 The Single UNIX(TM) Specification, Version 2
  65 Copyright (C) 1997 The Open Group
  66
  67   Legacy utilities which are part util-linux package are:
  68
  69         col
  70         line
  71         pg
  72
  73   http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/intro.html#tag_001_003_003