Disks package

[O. Sinclair]

On 30/10/2012 20:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 30/10/12 17:06, Steve Riley wrote:
>> On 2012-10-30 16:01:12 Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> does anyone know where the useful package "disks" went with 12.12. I
>>> still have it on an upgraded machine, but it's not  available with a
>>> fresh install.
>>
>> Checking the package search function at Ubuntu shows no package called
>> "disks." Can you tell us more about what that is?
>
> Yes I know, which is why I raised the query. I think that the package
> was originally named "disk-utils", but Kubuntu called it " disks" in
> 12.04. It's a utility that looks at the disk hardware in a given machine
> and produces useful info regarding physical details of the disks,
> partitioning, file system formats etc..
>
I can not find any such package here on my 12.04 install?? fdisk, udisk 
etc but no disks??

/Sinclair