/*Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org>*/ wrote on Fri, 08 Aug 2014
19:07:11 -0500:
On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 02:33 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
GParted provides a number of essential features users might need, some
of which are not provided even by any command line tools in Fedora
repositories: resizing and moving partitions/filesystems. And
something like resizing FAT partitions is what I have not seen in any
other tools in Fedora repositories except kde-partitionmanager.
Anaconda provides resizing facility, but not move. Also, I'm not sure
if Anaconda can resize FAT partitions.
Hi Hedayat,
gparted should not be included because it's an advanced tool for
technical users, whereas Fedora Workstation needs to contain only tools
that are easy for everyone to use. Keep in mind that programs included
in the live image will also wind up on the installed system.
Michael
I actually don't insist on including gparted itself, but some of its
features. Having a second thought, I think it is actually better to add
such missing features to Anaconda itself, so it would benefit
installation media too.
I didn't talk about GParted just because it is "useful". I talked about
it since sometimes it is "needed for successful installation". Yes, if
you already have installed any kind of GNU/Linux OS, you would rarely
need to resize/move any partitions. But I've seen this being needed for
many 'first time' installs.
Well, as I said, I think missing features should be added to Anaconda,
rather than including gparted in live media. You might say moving
partitions is 'too much' for Anaconda, but IMHO resizing FAT partitions
isn't (unless you think that Anaconda should remove the ability to
shrink NTFS partitions too!).
Regards,
Hedayat
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