From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:59:23 -0500 From: Simon Piette To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Please bang on GNU Parted ;-) Message-ID: <20001104105922.B23753@xim.dyndns.org> Reply-To: spiette@generation.net References: <3A025FFD.EC6CB84A@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3A025FFD.EC6CB84A@gnu.org>; from clausen@gnu.org on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:49:33PM +1100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, The backend seems to be rock-solid. I've tried to resize a mounted partitions and parted refuse. I've also tried to resize a partition filled with 96M to 64M and parted refuse. Is there a test suite for parted so it could be more systematic? I am some concerns about the interface, though. At this stage, parted is like a very sharp knife, without handle. It slices, it dices, but watch your fingers! :-) - parted execute right away each command. IMHO, a "commit" command would be much more safe. At least for 1.4.0 final, parted should print a warning, such as "CAUTION: Commands are executed right away!". - It should have a read-only switch, so the user could be sure to not mess its partition table. - It would be nice to have the "print" command to display sizes of each partitions. - parted needed to be started with a device. Why not start parted in interactive mode anymway, so then the user will ba able to select a device? I really liked the "mkpartfs" and "cp" command, and I expect parted to be the disk partitioning tool of choice among the PPC Linux community. Good work! Simon Piette * Andrew Clausen (clausen@gnu.org) [001103 17:00]: > > Hi all, > > I think GNU Parted is pretty stable now, but I'd be more than > happy to be proven wrong ;-) > > ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/devel/parted-1.4.0-pre8.tar.gz > > (GNU Parted is allows you to manipulate partition tables, and resize > ext2 partitions, and other things...) > > Thanks, > Andrew Clausen > > > -- PGP key ID: 1024D/99290743 Simon Piette PGP Key fingerprint: 9AF9 33F9 A900 E153 9DF3 0625 8928 CB52 9929 0743 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/