[ug-bosug] Solaris parted

[Anil Gulecha]

On 4/15/07, nikhil v <nvyakaranam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> The basic functionality of GNU Parted (libparted) has been implemented to
> work
> on OpenSolaris. The code is currently at a very beta stage although the
> basic functionality of editing fdisk partitions works on Solaris. The
> following commands of parted are fully functional:
> print, mkpart, mkpartfs, rm, mkfs, resize and toggle are fully functional
> as of now.
>
> The Parted code can be grabbed from: http://code.google.com/p/solaris-parted
>
>
> The following are known limitations that we are currently working on:
> * The code has only been tested on IDE disks. Support for SCSI is in the
> pipeline.
> * Solaris partitions are still displayed by parted as "unknown". We need
> to
>   add the VTOC identification support to parted.
> * The code needs quite some cleanup
> * Device probing is still incomplete.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nikhil Vyakaranam,
> Sujay Patil,
> Srivatsa V,
> Nitin Shekhar


Congrats, guys!

Anil
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