On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 20:18, Markus Hitter <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote: > > Am 21.11.2009 um 22:38 schrieb Remco: > >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 19:58, Michael Bienia <mich...@bienia.de> wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-11-21 17:37:46 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: >>>> >>>> <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg> >>>> Oh, perhaps you prefer command line disk partitioning over gparted as >>>> well. It's doable and much more flexible :-) >>> >>> gparted is probably a good GUI (hadn't have to repartition my disk for a >>> long time, so never used it till now). But does it help someone to >>> partition his disk properly who doesn't know about primary/logical >>> partitions, filesystem types, mount points, etc.? >> >> It doesn't. > > Well, it does. It gives a visual representation of how the result will be, > it translates partition codes to human readable descriptions ("ext2", > "FAT32", ...), it takes some care to avoid conflicts and it invokes the > correct tools to format the newly created partitions. > > On the command line, you have a lot more chances to do things wrong.
Yes, that's precisely the thing that Gparted helps you with. That's why I, as a partitioning expert (hee), still value Gparted. But it does not help my mom, who doesn't know the difference between a partition and a filesystem. I don't think we want to cater to these 'normal users' with these GUI administration tools. We want to cater to administrators with varying degrees of experience, making them more productive and less error prone. At least, that's why *I* want GUI tools. -- Remco -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
