Re: gnu-parted isn't as good-looking as gparted

[Curtis Gedak]

Hi Shirish,

shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I installed Debian Squeeze 6.0. I used the graphical installer to
> install Squeeze.  While partitioning it was using gnu parted. While I
> was working with that, I was surprised to see that I had to do 3
> things, delete the old partitions, give the new sizes for partitions
> and then say "Done setting up the partition " or something to that
> effect.
>
> If I compare it vis-a-vis gparted (or Gnome partition Editor) which
> Ubuntu uses as the default partitioner for a newbie, its much more
> comfortable. It took me say 5-10 minutes to figure out what I had to
> do.
>   

If your concern is with the Debian Squeeze 6.0 installer, you might wish 
to raise this issue with the Debian team.  :)

Each GNU/Linux distribution is free choose which partition manager to use.

You might even be able to use GParted from a Debian Squeeze Live CD 
simply by running a command to install the software, such as:
    sudo apt-get install gparted

> I am not trying to criticize but ask if it has been felt by other
> people too. It might be wrong in my part to compare the two
> partitioners but that's the way it is.
>   

As background information the Parted project provides the libparted 
library for partition editing and also a command line interface that 
uses the library.  The GParted project provides a graphical user 
interface to the libparted library.

GParted would not exist were it not for the hard work of the Parted 
project team and their generosity in providing the library for use under 
the terms of the GPL.  If you are curious, there are also other tools 
that use the libparted library, such as pyparted, and qtparted.

Regards,
Curtis Gedak
(Maintainer of GParted)