On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 01:29:43PM +1000, bug1 wrote:
> > Red Hat's `libfdisk' contains a partition editor with a `newt'
> > interface. It might be possible to port it to our system and hook
> > that into our Woody `debinst' `dbootstrap'.
> >
> What about parted, it doesnt have much a of a GUI, but it wouldnt be
> hard to do i dont think.
> I think the ability to resize existing partitions (non destructivve
> install) is one most users would really like.
Agreed re parted. I think a cool project would be hacking a GUI similar to
cfdisk into parted...
> > Can shell scripts be compressed and executed via "zcat SCRIPT |
> > /bin/sh"? Would that buy us some space? How about other
> > executables? Can they easily be compressed somehow? (launched
> > through a shell script that does autodecompress or something?)
> >
> Cramfs is a compressed read-only filesystem in 2.4, it compresses each
> block, so it doesnt get the same compression as you would on the whole
> file.
Using compressed ext2 could also work. Works just like regular ext2 until you
chattr files, at which point they are transparently compressed/uncompressed.
> I have heard of a way you can make bziped executables, only read about
> it though.
If you look at an strace of these type of things, you will see that
the uncompress themselves into /tmp and then exec the newly extracted
file in /tmp, and have an atexit to delete the file. This is not
a good way to do things IMHO.
-Erik
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