Please bang on GNU Parted ;-)

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

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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

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