FS#22874 - [archboot] Do NOT use parted to set up disk partitions

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Campbell (Davekong) - Sunday, 13 February 2011, 03:40 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 06:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The partition disk step in archboot drops the user into parted on the command line. This is crappy. cfdisk is much more intuitive to use and less likely to result in things like unwanted gaps between partitions/frustrated users.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 06:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 14:49 GMT
On the other hand, parted can align partitions like they should, and parted supports GPT where cfdisk does not. IMHO we should allow some choice here, though I still prefer parted.
Comment by David Campbell (Davekong) - Saturday, 19 February 2011, 06:58 GMT
I see your point, I am working on writing a ncurses front end to parted using pyparted. One issue I see at the moment is that parted does not recognize btrfs; although, maybe this is not really an issue, or I can find some work around using another library/external tool as well.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 06:23 GMT
For full explanation, read the archboot wiki here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot#FAQ.2C_Known_Issues_and_limitations

cfdisk is still on the disk you have to run it from the commandline.
parted is the only program that does everything correct.

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