-----Original Message----- From: Per Jessen <per@computer.org> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Curious about Yast2 Partitioner Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:32:26 +0100 Hans Witvliet wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Per Jessen <per@computer.org> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Curious about Yast2 Partitioner Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:15:33 +0100
Per Jessen wrote:
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
[snip about gparted]
So my question is this - Why, when there is a tool that is so much more capable, open sourced and freely available, is Yast2 sticking to using such a brain dead partitioning tool?
Actually, yast uses parted too. Gparted is just the user interface. Gparted presumably does not have a text-mode which YaST requires.
Um, that wasn't really very clear.
Gparted and YaST both use parted under the covers. Gparted adds a graphical user interface, YaST adds a graphical _and_ a text-mode interface. -----Original Message-----
So, as both yast and gparted are using parted underneath, it seems just that some options are missing in the yast-gui.
Yes, I guess that is possible. Personally I haven't missed any, but I don't use the yast-gui much.
Just like yast insist that a drive should be partitioned, while sometimes putting a filesystem on a unpartioned drive is good enough..
Funny, I ran into that just yesterday when I tried to use a whole drive for swap. -----Original Message----- My use-case is with virtual systems: I give my xen-machines four disks: boot, swap, system and data/home. When i want to enlarge a "disk", i just have to resize it on the dom0. On the client it is enough the resize the filesystem __IF__ i can use the raw disk. If i let yast to create a single partition, i have to start-stop the virtual client to re-read the partition table before i can resize the FS. Hence i create machines without /srv, and add it later on. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org