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In D12311#250731 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12311#250731>, @stikonas wrote: > In D12311#250688 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12311#250688>, @bruns wrote: > > > Gnome-disks does, and so do other programs. > > > Gnome-disks uses UDisks to do everything and can't do anything on its own. So available features are very limited (not even resizing partitions). > I suspect it is significantly less portable (e.g. to FreeBSD). > That's why gnome-disks was written from scratch (with fewer features than gparted that it was supposedly replacing) and it wasn't the case of somebody porting gparted to udisks . Resizing: http://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Partition.html#gdbus-method-org-freedesktop-UDisks2-Partition.Resize REPOSITORY R121 Policykit (Polkit) KDE Agent BRANCH align-lock-icon (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D12311 To: sharvey, davidedmundson, ngraham, abetts, #frameworks Cc: stikonas, bruns, ltoscano, broulik, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart