Re: Thank you , parted !

[Andrew Clausen]

Sridhar wrote:
>         I'm posting this to thank all the ppl, involved with parted. What
> it helped me do, was to clean out the entire hardisk , delete all the
> partitions, but still keep important data ( 1 GB) safe, though it wasnt
> backed up. ;-)
>         i might add, i did a bit of acrobatics with parted, and fdisk, and
> the bios, to get it done, but right now, my hardisk is exactly how i need
> it.

Excellent :-)

>         One suggestion, can u make it the default partition creator in the
> major linux distros ?

It will happen, eventually, I think... just it's a fair bit of work to
use libparted well.  (While it's possible to use Parted in the
front end, Parted is built on libparted, so it's possible to have Parted
fit nicely into a GUI installer, etc.  This is a lot of work...)

Andrew Clausen