Would be nice to have gparted

[tnut]

Hello everybody.

I've just join the forum, this little distribution songs very intresting to me. I'm not shure I posted in the right place. Would it be possible to have gparted part of the core. Since tibycorelinux runs in RAM, I thing your distro would be perfect to work on the partitions of a disk which is not mounted in a graphical tools.

Excellent work, keep going.


Thierry

[curaga]

Gparted is a gtk2 app, so it would take too much space in base; an extension could be created for it.

But I think the Gparted livecd is more suited for that?

[tobiaus]

But I think the Gparted livecd is more suited for that?

probably, but would you rather keep one cdrom handy, or two? one usb key, or two? although presumably with the usb key, you would be able to install both... someone could carry tc and then also have gparted available.

[Juanito]

Let me have a look at making a gparted extension...

[tnut]

making a gparted extension...

That's  what I was thinking of


Tanks a lot for your answers

Thierry

[Juanito]

The first pass seems to work - I'm just debating whether to add an icon to start such a weapon of mass destruction or oblige users to think/reflect by having to open a root window...

[clivesay]

I would vote root terminal

[tnut]

Personnally a icon would be great
Tanks a lot for the extention.

Regards

[florian]

Can I vote as well?

I vote for not putting icons in wbar for tools that should be run as root.
Menu entry is good enough and still it should labelled as something like: gparted (as root)

[jur]

It would be nice to have gparted with support for more file systems as listed in the drop-down box, such as ntfs, fat, ext4... would make tcl into a powerful tool for manipulating disks. Instead of having to keep a copy of partedmagic around. (Damn where DID I put that disk?)

[Juanito]

As per the info file:

optionally can be used with ntfsprogs extension

..and mtools and/or dosfstools should add ntfs, fat functionality to gparted.

I agree ext3/ext4 support is probably not there - I'll add this to the "todo" list.

[tclfan]

Let me have a look at making a gparted extension...

Thank you Juanito. I was looking forward for one too. I did use Gparted LiveCD but it is way too heavy and boots long time, so SliTaz was the one I preferred to use instead. Boots much faster and has Gparted included. If TCL has extension, then one fewer disk to have at hand...
Now only one thing still remains for the user: Master the process of remastering CD...

[Juanito]

just so as there's no confusion, there already is a gparted extension in the repo and I just finished compiling the latest version that I still need to test.

ext4 functionality in gparted might have to wait for an update of the e2fsprogs libs in the base however...