On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 12:32 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
<snip> Still, I'd have to agree with m.roth: parted(8) has a...um...classical UI. It's not far advanced beyond the ex(1) school of UI design.
I disagree. I don't think it's advanced beyond that school....
Yes, it is so bad that it is surprising that there is not a text-mode program that performs the functions of gparted - or is there one? That is, something that gives you a fill-in-the-form setup with reasonable defaults, then runs parted (and maybe mklabel, mkfs, etc.) for you. Do we really need to run X for that?
Hi
I have been using gdisk for at least a year on Centos and F15/F16
Current Centos 6.2 server disk was probably partitioned using F15 gdisk followed by a custom install of C6.0
Centos 6.2 gdisk is now installed on the server (maui, 256GB SSD)
[root@maui ~]# gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.1
Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 468862128 sectors, 223.6 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 238914FA-2437-4AD8-B803-5CA2860D9D93 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 468862094 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition 2 4096 2101247 1024.0 MiB EF00 Linux/Windows data 3 2101248 6295551 2.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap 4 6295552 69210111 30.0 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data 5 69210112 132124671 30.0 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data 6 132124672 174067711 20.0 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data 7 174067712 468862094 140.6 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data
Command (? for help): q [root@maui ~]# uname -a Linux maui.jaa.org.uk 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 00:52:02 GMT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
John