GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
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    GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

    Phoronix: GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

    GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...

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  • Danny3
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2012
    • 2408

    #2
    It would've been very nice if they also fixed Gparted forcing us to use only uppercase labels for FAT32 partitions, FFS!
    Just because Windows might have a problem with them.
    Which might not even exist on our computers.
    I wonder why did they allow Gparted to create EXT4, BTRFS and other partition type since Windows has a problem with those too.
    This is a very old problem:
    I have a partition in hard disk drive (/dev/sda4) formatted with fat32. Current volume label is "MYNAME". I want to change it to "MyName"

    So stupid and annoying to see that for Gparted developers Windows bugs and limitations are more important than filesystems specs:
    When I try to set the volume label for my FAT32 USB drive the normal way (using Windows Explorer or Disk Management), the filesystem just makes the label uppercase when applying it. Is it possible...

    Even when Gparted is used on computers that don't have Windows and don't care about compatiblity with Windows at all!

    Discovered it by adding mixed case names and labels to all of my Linux partitions, including the EFI one, which is FAT32.
    Lucky that fatlabel cares more about the spec than Windows and KDE Partition Manager developers were willing to fix the problem so at least 2 tools don't have this problem.
    Hopefully Gparted developers will be willing to fix it too one day.
    Anyway, many thanks to them for all the work they have done!

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    • lyamc
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2020
      • 526

      #3
      Unpopular opinion but I think case insensitivity how Windows does it is great. NetworkManager tab completion has gotten me a few times because it's one of the few things that starts with a capital letter.

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      • mos87
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2016
        • 459

        #4
        Originally posted by lyamc View Post
        Unpopular opinion but I think case insensitivity how Windows does it is great. NetworkManager tab completion has gotten me a few times because it's one of the few things that starts with a capital letter.
        ehrm... wrong and wrong.

        Because

        echo '$include /etc/inputrc' > ~/.inputrc
        echo 'set completion-ignore-case on' >> ~/.inputrc

        et voila

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        • ezst036
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2018
          • 681

          #5
          Does this new release make it blindingly easy to create a RAID 5 array out of 4 separate drives?

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          • HighValueWarrior
            Phoronix Member
            • May 2020
            • 90

            #6
            Has alignment support been added ?

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            • yump
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2021
              • 509

              #7
              Danny3 If you don't care about Windows compatibility, why are you using FAT at all? It's infamously delicate, and the numeric limits are low enough to sometimes become an actual problem.

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              • curfew
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2010
                • 639

                #8
                Originally posted by lyamc View Post
                Unpopular opinion but I think case insensitivity how Windows does it is great. NetworkManager tab completion has gotten me a few times because it's one of the few things that starts with a capital letter.
                "My autocomplete is case-sensitive so I demand my fs to become case-insensitive instead".

                Talk about a stupid solution to a non-problem.

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                • lyamc
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2020
                  • 526

                  #9
                  Originally posted by curfew View Post
                  "My autocomplete is case-sensitive so I demand my fs to become case-insensitive instead".

                  Talk about a stupid solution to a non-problem.
                  It's more human-friendly. I just gave one example, but there's a lot more examples.

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                  • cakeisamadeupdrug
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Apr 2024
                    • 51

                    #10
                    This site may actually account for 90% of internet references to Bcachefs

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