[openbeos] PartitionManager for DriveSetup: why not use Parted?
- From: "Gregor Rosenauer" <rosenauer@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:51:09 CEST (+0200)
Hello,
Recently I discovered a nice little partitionmanager at the GNU-site, which
even supports *non-destructive* resizing etc. of partitions (fat+ext2)!
I think the development-time of a DriveSetup-clone could be drastically
shortened if the free, open-source utility "parted" would be used.
It is command-line-only, but my hope is that a GUI to visualize the
partition-infos received from parted and to pass the relevant arguments to
parted would be rather simple to add (compared to a complete rewrite of the
Partitioning-module).
The link:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
From the page:
"GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and
copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating
space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between
hard disks and disk imaging."
BGA+axeld could even add BFS-support to it later, making it superior to
commercial apps like PartitionMagic..!
This might be another win:win-situation for OpenBeOS, where another proprietary
app is recreated with a free, better version - and here alot of time&energy
could be saved from recreating something even remotely as usable as that.
Cheers,
Gregor
--
"If soft drinks were like software, you would need
a Trachea surgery to switch from Coke to Pepsi" (Dave Haynie)
Gregor B. Rosenauer
Student of Computer Science and New Media Engineering
Vienna, Austria
http://www.hugh.at.tf
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