On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0400 David Campbell <davekong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400: > > If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream. > > I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for: > > - interactive partitioning > > Because I was not too happy with doing interactive partitioning > with parted, I started a project [cparted][1]. I thought it was > going to be ready for use soon, but then realized it has some > issues (alignment wrong, fixing alignment had other unwanted side > effects), and am not sure how soon they will be fixed. But this > brings up a couple questions. If cparted is in good working > order, would it be considered for use with AIF? Maybe, if the project has become really big. For stuff like this I really would like a reliable upstream which I can trust will produce high-quality software. We're talking about tricky and important stuff which is hard to debug. And we're talking about stuff that every distribution needs, so I'm inclined to wait for a solution supported by the kernel guys (i.e. something in util-linux would be nice) > Is having Python and [pyparted][2] as dependencies OK? I would try hard to avoid python. There were times I wished I wrote aif in python (then it obviously be okay), but at this point I would rather just depend on some commonly available binary programs. > > - scripted partitioning (for auto-installs) > > You can run parted in --script mode. Hmm, and does it have a proper UI in ncurses or something? to replace cfdisk in aif? I know about the newt-based nparted but I'm told it's badly maintained. Dieter
