GUI for "gpart"

[Carmel]

I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

[Polytropon]

Post by Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

I'd suggest to look into the PC-BSD installer and the
utilities that come with that system.

[Wojciech Puchar]

Post by Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile
linux software.

Anyway i see no reason for such a software, click-click solutions are
always inefficient relative to normal text based ones, and partitioning is
not a job that end user (who want click-click interfaces at all cost) is
supposed to do

[Beni Brinckman]

Post by Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux
software.
Anyway i see no reason for such a software, click-click solutions are always
inefficient relative to normal text based ones, and partitioning is not a
job that end user (who want click-click interfaces at all cost) is supposed
to do

What happened to the idea of "having a choice" ? If you want to keep
living in the 80's with a text based menu, go ahead, I prefer a click
solution. And I see no reason why a click solution is "always"
inefficient. That depends on the programmer making the interface.
I'm a desktop user. So I should mind my own business and shut up
because some old (or senior if you prefer) server guy has a problem
using a mouse ? No thanks ! I prefer to live in 2012 and use the
technical means of nowadays.
No flames intended, just my opinion (which has nothing to do with the
original question, I know).
Beni.

[Wojciech Puchar]

Post by Beni Brinckman
What happened to the idea of "having a choice" ? If you want to keep
living in the 80's with a text based menu, go ahead, I prefer a click

not only me but anyone that wants productivity do live in 80's text based
interfaces or even 60-70's command line interfaces.

These are facts.

And partition editor are not supposed to be used by end users.

[Graeme Dargie]

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Post by Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux software.

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Perhaps your English phrasing loses something in translation, but your "opinions" are always presented in a way that you are correct and the rest of the world is just wrong.

As for the original question have a look at the gparted live cd, full GUI support on that so you might be able to get that running, off the top of my head I am not sure about UFS support.

[Wojciech Puchar]

Post by Graeme Dargie
Perhaps your English phrasing loses something in translation, but your "opinions" are always presented in a way that you are correct and the rest of the world is just wrong.

what you expect - to assume i am wrong and everyone else is right. if i
assume so i don't present such opinion naturally.

Post by Graeme Dargie
As for the original question have a look at the gparted live cd, full GUI

no idea how it is freebsd related.

[Thomas Mueller]

Post by Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?

I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD.

gpart in FreeBSD supports partition types suitable mainly for FreeBSD as opposed to more general, including Linux and other BSD.

So I wouldn't expect to find gpart in Linux, though there is a more general gdisk, by Rod Smith:

http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

But I don't think there is any GUI for gdisk.

I believe the latest release is 0.8.5; gdisk is also in FreeBSD ports, latest version there being 0.8.2 as far as I know.


Tom

[Bruce Cran]

Post by Thomas Mueller
I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD.

No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes.

[Bruce Cran]

Post by Bruce Cran

Post by Thomas Mueller
I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD,
replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD.

No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes.

Sorry you're right - I've seen lots of people thinking gpart only
supports GPT and didn't read it properly before replying.