add QTparted

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: add QTparted
started by: UltraMagnus

Posted by UltraMagnus on Feb. 20 2007,10:28

would be ever so helpful when doing a hard drive install

Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 20 2007,12:35

Quote (UltraMagnus @ Feb. 20 2007,05:28)

would be ever so helpful when doing a hard drive install

What's not ever so helpful about fdisk or cfdisk?

You have to remember what the S stands for in DSL. Small. DSL is 50MB of Linux. How big is qtparted and how much of a trade-off would it require to keep DSL at 50MB?

The installed Debian package for qtparted is ~750kb. It has a lot of dependencies including parted (120kb installed) and libparted (440kb installed), not to mention libqt (3.3.3 is 3MB compressed as a deb, 7.4MB installed). So right there you'd have to give up a lot of usefulness just for a fancy GUI partitioning program.

Try using cfdisk if fdisk is too confusing or burdensome.

Posted by beakmyn on Feb. 20 2007,13:10

cfdisk is much easier. You don't really need the eye-candy of qparted to partition a disk.