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

[Mark Logan]

James Carlson wrote:
> 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?).
>   

Thanks for the support.
I will change it to exec_attr.

>   
>>> 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.
>   

We talked to the OpenSolaris Installation people and they haven't 
decided which one they want to use yet.

>   
>>> /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8      Volatile          Manual page (Phase 1)
>>>       
>
> This belongs in 1M.  There's no "8" on Solaris.
>   

There is an "8" in Nevada. But I will move them if that is the right 
thing to do.

>   
>>> /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?
>   

I didn't think about that. /usr/sbin does sound like a better choice. I 
will make that change.

>   
>>> 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.
>   

I will make both of these changes.

Mark