Re: Post Install Fdisk GUI??

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Don MacAskill wrote:
>
> >
> > Jay Lee wrote:
> >
> > > Montz, James C. (James Tower) said:
> > >
> > >>Is there any gui for managing disks & partitions after OS install?
> > >>
> > >>Something like Disk Druid?
> > >
> > >
> > > There's a mount management tool but that's about it.  Something like Disk
> > > Druid would be great for RHEL4 (or dare I say U3 or U4??)
> > >
> >
> > I've never understood why disk druid, which is a pretty nice, functional
> > tool, isn't available except during install.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why, out of curiosity?
> >
>
>
> IIRC, in 5.0 or 6.x there was a Disk Druid or cdisk that was kinda what
> the installer had.

cdisk was dropped because the maintainers thought it unmaintainable.  The
quote from the release notes was something akin to "steaming pile of...".

I recall a discussion about Disk Druid.  I think I understood that it has
hooks into Anaconda and can't be easily separated.

>
> OTOH, I'm not terribly concerned with the absence of a tool to make it blow
> away your entire box with a smile.  You should at least have to work for
> that kind of destruction :)

There's a GUI version of parted caled qtparted, but I've never used it.

>
> -n
>
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

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