Ian McInerney left as an exercise for the reader: > There are a couple of advantages to gparted (that I haven't found analogous > operations for in gnome-disks): > > * gnome-disks doesn't give you as easy access to the range of volume types > that gparted does (I don't see anyway to get FAT16, or the older EXT2/3 > filesystems directly on the format partition dialog, instead you have to go > through and make a partition, wait for that change to apply, then change > the format afterwards). gparted lets you choose the format right away. > > * gparted allows you to queue operations before performing them - so you > can stage all your disk changes to ensure you can get the layout you intend > and perform them all at once (so you don't accidentally change the disk > while designing a partition layout) > > * gparted gives the fine-grained control of partition information (such as > flags) > > * gparted allows copy/paste of partition information, so you can quickly do > some repetitive partitioning tasks. A few years ago, I wrote a tool "growlight" designed for disk preparation, especially during the install/rescue timeframe. I've kept it up to date, and it provides most of this functionality (it lacks the queuing described above), along with an informative TUI. It's not nearly as well-known as gparted or gnome-disks, but might be worth taking a look at: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Growlight I can easily package it for Fedora now that Notcurses is present in F33. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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