Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[James Carlson]

Phi Tran writes:
> > GNU Partition Editor (Parted) [1] is a command-line application that allows you to resize, create or delete disk partitions and filesystems. The goal is to put it on the OpenSolaris Live CD. That way one could shrink the Vista or other NTFS partition and create space to install OpenSolaris. Many x86 machines come preinstalled with Vista. The availability of Parted would increase adoption of OpenSolaris by making it easier to create a dual-boot environment.

First of all: "yay!"

And I agree with the others about RBAC (should be exec_attr) and I
have the same questions about ntfsprogs (why not just deliver this?).

> > GParted is Phase 2 of this project. There will be a separate LSARC case.

Which one will the installer use?  I would have expected that it uses
gparted.

> > /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8      Volatile          Manual page (Phase 1)

This belongs in 1M.  There's no "8" on Solaris.

> > /usr/bin/parted                   Volatile          Parted launcher shell script (Phase 1)

It would be nice if we could stick to putting administrative utilities
into /usr/sbin.  Is that possible, or is there something out there
that depends on having '/usr/bin/parted' leading to the command line
version of this utility?

> > SUNWgparted                       Committed         Package name (Phase 2)
> > /usr/share/man/man8/gparted.8     Volatile          Manual page (Phase 2)
> > /usr/bin/gparted                  Volatile          GParted application (Phase 2)

Not sure if we're reviewing these bits here (isn't that for the later
LSARC case?), but, as a nit, I wouldn't make package names
"Committed," but rather Uncommitted.

And the path for gparted really should be Committed.  There's no
obvious way it could change other than by removal.

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