James Carlson wrote: > Phi Tran writes: > >>> GNU Partition Editor (Parted) [1] is a command-line application that allows >>> you to resize, create or delete disk partitions and filesystems. The goal >>> is to put it on the OpenSolaris Live CD. That way one could shrink the >>> Vista or other NTFS partition and create space to install OpenSolaris. Many >>> x86 machines come preinstalled with Vista. The availability of Parted would >>> increase adoption of OpenSolaris by making it easier to create a dual-boot >>> environment. >>> > > First of all: "yay!" > > And I agree with the others about RBAC (should be exec_attr) and I > have the same questions about ntfsprogs (why not just deliver this?). >
Thanks for the support. I will change it to exec_attr. > >>> GParted is Phase 2 of this project. There will be a separate LSARC case. >>> > > Which one will the installer use? I would have expected that it uses > gparted. > We talked to the OpenSolaris Installation people and they haven't decided which one they want to use yet. > >>> /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8 Volatile Manual page (Phase 1) >>> > > This belongs in 1M. There's no "8" on Solaris. > There is an "8" in Nevada. But I will move them if that is the right thing to do. > >>> /usr/bin/parted Volatile Parted launcher shell >>> script (Phase 1) >>> > > It would be nice if we could stick to putting administrative utilities > into /usr/sbin. Is that possible, or is there something out there > that depends on having '/usr/bin/parted' leading to the command line > version of this utility? > I didn't think about that. /usr/sbin does sound like a better choice. I will make that change. > >>> SUNWgparted Committed Package name (Phase 2) >>> /usr/share/man/man8/gparted.8 Volatile Manual page (Phase 2) >>> /usr/bin/gparted Volatile GParted application >>> (Phase 2) >>> > > Not sure if we're reviewing these bits here (isn't that for the later > LSARC case?), but, as a nit, I wouldn't make package names > "Committed," but rather Uncommitted. > > And the path for gparted really should be Committed. There's no > obvious way it could change other than by removal. > I will make both of these changes. Mark
