[ug-bosug] Solaris parted

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

Congratulations Solaris Parted Team - Nikhil, Sujay, Srivatsa, Nitin!

I am very happy to see BOSUG members contribute code to OpenSolaris. 
Good job guys! Another feather in the cap for BOSUG. Get us the GUI 
fast. :-)

~Joe


Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
> Great Work !
> 
> I compiled and ran it successfully on my solaris box - Works like a 
> charm. When do we get to see the gparted GUI now ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ananth
> 
> nikhil v 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 
>> <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
>>
>>
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