On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM, <m.roth at 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com