Partition tool with console UI (as in server installation)?
- by lepe
Back in 2006, Ray (3DLover) posted the same question in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=309680
but none of the answers were really useful. Now with a little help from AskUbuntu community, I would like to repeat his question again to see if this time it can be answered correctly.
So this is the question (and what I wish too):
I'm looking for a UI tool for
managing partitions in a console. I
have installed Ubuntu Server, so I
don't have X Windows at all. fdisk and
sfdisk are entirely command line.
parted is slightly better, but it's
not really a UI. cfdisk has somewhat
of a UI, but it only works on one
disk at a time, and there's no
advanced options like configuring LVM
or RAID. Just partitioning.
I love the partition tool that is
available during the OS install
procedure. You can partition,
configure RAID's and LMV sets. It can
format the partitions with several
different file systems, it can set
labels, mount options and it can insert your volumes
into your fstab. Is this tool
available as a stand-alone program? I
can't find it anywhere. I think it's
called parted_server, but I can't find
much information about where to get
it.
In the past, I have run the Ubuntu
install procedure just to use the
partition manager that comes with it.
(canceling the install after making my
partition edits)
Anyone help me on this? Thanks
-Ray
Thanks in advance.
