Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Package: debian-live Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop Severity: wishlist Hello Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge root file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some people. The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0 would just be 7 MB. Best Regards, -christian- -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge > root file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted > which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much > more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's > especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some > people. > > The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0 > would just be 7 MB. > Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included. The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work. Regards, Ben
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Ben, I would consider taking on the task of maintaining the necessary files for a rescue image. I haven't looked into what is involved, but if you can point me to some docs I will take a look and see if it will fit with my time constraints. Sincerely, Donald -Original Message- From: Ben Armstrong [mailto:sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:05 AM To: Christian Hammers; 812...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge root > file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted > which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much > more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's > especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some > people. > > The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0 > would just be 7 MB. > Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included. The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work. Regards, Ben
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Donald - I will help you with this as I can if you're willing to take the lead. -Original Message- From: Don Raikes [mailto:don.rai...@oracle.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 11:21 AM To: Ben Armstrong ; 812...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted Ben, I would consider taking on the task of maintaining the necessary files for a rescue image. I haven't looked into what is involved, but if you can point me to some docs I will take a look and see if it will fit with my time constraints. Sincerely, Donald -Original Message- From: Ben Armstrong [mailto:sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:05 AM To: Christian Hammers; 812...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge root > file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted > which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much > more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's > especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some > people. > > The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0 > would just be 7 MB. > Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included. The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work. Regards, Ben This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of Computer Services, Inc. and/or its divisions, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. The sender does not accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer systems that may occur from content of any sort contained in, transmitted with, or added to this e-mail. If you are not a named recipient or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Hi, I am willing to take the lead on resurrecting debian-live-rescue, but according to this webpage: http://syn.theti.ca/2015/06/23/debian-live-rescue-needs-some-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5665 I should start by trying to build a rescue image from the existing live-image sources. However, when I go to https://github.com/debian-live/live-images.git I cannot find a branch that contains the old rescue build configuration. Is this configuration laying around somewhere I can use as a starting point? -Original Message- From: Devin Trotter [mailto:devin.trot...@csiweb.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 12:16 PM To: Don Raikes; 812...@bugs.debian.org; Ben Armstrong Subject: RE: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted Donald - I will help you with this as I can if you're willing to take the lead. -Original Message- From: Don Raikes [mailto:don.rai...@oracle.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 11:21 AM To: Ben Armstrong ; 812...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted Ben, I would consider taking on the task of maintaining the necessary files for a rescue image. I haven't looked into what is involved, but if you can point me to some docs I will take a look and see if it will fit with my time constraints. Sincerely, Donald -Original Message- From: Ben Armstrong [mailto:sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:05 AM To: Christian Hammers; 812...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge root > file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted > which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much > more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's > especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some > people. > > The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0 > would just be 7 MB. > Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included. The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work. Regards, Ben This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of Computer Services, Inc. and/or its divisions, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. The sender does not accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer systems that may occur from content of any sort contained in, transmitted with, or added to this e-mail. If you are not a named recipient or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Hi Don, > However, when I go to https://github.com/debian-live/live-images.git I cannot > find a branch that contains the old rescue build configuration. said repository is quite correct, however the files got removed from the tree by [1]. > Is this configuration laying around somewhere I can use as a starting point? The package lists are available until [2] Cheers Daniel [1] https://github.com/debian-live/live-images/commit/4c1911124c2ae128312ae6d256c8322d944d258f [2] https://github.com/debian-live/live-images/tree/3de5ad45b9fd2d3a6874bb4757288299a3e3b01a/images/rescue/config/package-lists
Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
El 22/01/16 a las 23:47, Don Raikes escribió: Hi, I am willing to take the lead on resurrecting debian-live-rescue, but according to this webpage: http://syn.theti.ca/2015/06/23/debian-live-rescue-needs-some-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5665 I should start by trying to build a rescue image from the existing live-image sources. However, when I go to https://github.com/debian-live/live-images.git I cannot find a branch that contains the old rescue build configuration. Is this configuration laying around somewhere I can use as a starting point? Take a look at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2014/08/msg00081.html https://adrian15sgd.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/about-rescue-tools-in-gnulinux-systems-in-2014-draft/ (Find the configuration link you want there. ;) ) https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00075.html On one night we discussed in #debian-live irc about this rescue image / rescue blend and well. I leave you some bits here: 1) There was some discussion about the original dba plans on submitting a tasksel-rescue package versus what it's currently used: * task-rescue (task-* is official tasks maintained by the d-i team). * blendname-tasks (Already used in blends for their specific stuff.) What I mean is that my article begins with me trying to make a tasksel-rescue package and it turns out that this package name not even exists. 2) Ben Armstrong wanted to reuse some of the packages I used on Rescatux. I warned him that Rescatux was graphical oriented and that I left out some cli tools from it. Some sysadmins might consider using grml instead of Rescatux for cli purposes just for that. adrian15 -- Support free software. Donate to Super Grub Disk. Apoya el software libre. Dona a Super Grub Disk. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/donate/
