GNOME Disks Gaining Resize & Repair Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Disks Gaining Resize & Repair Support

Thanks to work ongoing to GNOME Disks and UDisks, there should soon be support within this disk/file-system management program for resizing partitions as well as running a file-system repair...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Disks-Resize-Repair

[nazar-pc]

I'd be more interesting in seeing proper support for multi-disk btrfs and recognizing partitions within LUKS container.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'd be more interesting in seeing proper support for multi-disk btrfs and recognizing partitions within LUKS container.

And one day you'll probably get it, but this is far more appealing and functional to the vast majority of users.

[caligula]

Looks too complex for GNOME's taste. The resize function should only ask for a size.

[duby229]

Looks too complex for GNOME's taste. The resize function should only ask for a size.

I know Gnome's philosophy and I think can sense your sarcasm, So yeah, I agree 100%.

[GI_Jack]

Nice. Finally!

I can ditch gparted completely.

[Zan Lynx]

I'd be more interesting in seeing proper support for multi-disk btrfs and recognizing partitions within LUKS container.

I suppose that it would be pretty. But in my opinion if you're running multi-disk btrfs you should be doing it from the command line.

If you wanted a very pretty graphical interface it would need to be complete, so it could show which physical drive was being replaced or added. Like in those NAS web interfaces.

A GUI to let you replace /dev/sdd3 is not nearly as useful. You don't have enough information to know what /dev/sdd is. And it's going to take 18 hours, is the GUI going to just sit there spinning a little circle that long?

[grok]

There's a case for helping users configure a RAID1 or RAID1-alike, I suppose. Ditto weird encrypted stuff e.g. laptop users with some kind of confidential data.

For that I'll wish Gnome-disks developers good luck.
I would trollishly distrust gnome-disks and tell them, bugger off, I can use fdisk, mkfs, gparted, fstab. But gnome-disk is a nice convenience to mount drives on the computer's startup, it gets the partition into the fstab with UUIDs which is what allows them to work every time. Unfortunately, /dev/sdd3 can randomly jump to /dev/sdb3 or /dev/sdc3 or even /dev/sda3.

[grok]

A GUI to let you replace /dev/sdd3 is not nearly as useful. You don't have enough information to know what /dev/sdd is. And it's going to take 18 hours, is the GUI going to just sit there spinning a little circle that long?

There are stories of burger-flipper technician, or security guard asked to replace a failed disk in a RAID 5 array in a datacenter or server room... but that's a disaster, as the wrong disk is replaced.
I suppose you should write something like a disk UUID on a sticker and put the sticker on the disk drive?
Or I could imagine a GUI to emphasize the drive's serial number.

[ElectricPrism]

Making Gnome Disks make the jump from great to even greater.

Seriously, it has a lot of awesome functionality that make it the only GUI tool worth using for me, and paired with CLI tools that covers all my needs.