What no partition manager in Fedora/RHEL ?

[Bibelo]

Hello hello

I'm using RHEL 6 and writing a book about it.

I've been looking around for quite a bunch of time but never found a proper answer.

I wonder why there's no partition manager in the GUI ? (gnome)

Why is it not possible to launch the excellent partition manager provided in the installation program ?

Of course, there's a disk manager thing, but it's very limited and can't do LVM/RAID like the partition manager in anaconda.

If anyone knows about a graphical partition manager that I can install without adding a repository, it would be very welcome.

I know how to partition (parted, fdisk) and do LVM stuff on the command-line, so pleeease don't tell me to use them, it's not my question :D

Thank you very much for your answers !

[glennzo]

No gparted available in the stock repositories?

[tox]

isnt gparted installed by default? last i knew it was

Glenn: you might wanna move this to Linux Chat if he's using RHEL6

[glennzo]

Glenn: you might wanna move this to Linux Chat if he's using RHEL6
Good point.

Moved to Linux Chat.

[SteveGYBE]

I did not get "gparted" installed by default in F14 ... perhaps it is considered a bit out-of-date as it doesn't support LVM or LUKS (encrypted) partitions.

I use "system-config-lvm" GUI to configure and manage LVM partitions. This isn't installed by default in Fedora either, so it usually takes me a while to remember what the package is called! I'm not sure whether it is in RHEL.

[Bibelo]

No gparted available in the stock repositories?

Nope :

[root@cobb ~]# yum search gparted
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security
rhel-i386-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00
Warning: No matches found for: gparted
No Matches found


yum provides "*gparted*" gives the same answer.

I tried with other things but no result. So I'm pretty confused, there must be a reason why Red Hat thinks it's better not to give that in the repos, but I'd like to know which.

NB : it was the same with RHEL 5 and CentOS.

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I did not get "gparted" installed by default in F14 ... perhaps it is considered a bit out-of-date as it doesn't support LVM or LUKS (encrypted) partitions.

I use "system-config-lvm" GUI to configure and manage LVM partitions. This isn't installed by default in Fedora either, so it usually takes me a while to remember what the package is called! I'm not sure whether it is in RHEL.

Thank you for your answer. I guess that's what I have to do :
- Use the disk utility to create partitions
- Use system-config-lvm for LVM (true it's hard to remember)
- I'm not aware of anything for RAID and crypting as a GUI...

[leigh123linux]

Nope :



yum provides "*gparted*" gives the same answer.

I tried with other things but no result. So I'm pretty confused, there must be a reason why Red Hat thinks it's better not to give that in the repos, but I'd like to know which.

NB : it was the same with RHEL 5 and CentOS.


Grab it from koji

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=179029

[tox]

Nope :



yum provides "*gparted*" gives the same answer.

I tried with other things but no result. So I'm pretty confused, there must be a reason why Red Hat thinks it's better not to give that in the repos, but I'd like to know which.

NB : it was the same with RHEL 5 and CentOS.

RHEL doesnt use Fedora repo's so you will have to phone Redhat or Browse the redhat RHN repo for it, Open PackageKit Add/Remove and search for gparted

[Mariusz W]

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/14/x86_64/

gparted-0.7.0-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm 30-Oct-2010 13:53 1.2M

[Bibelo]

Grab it from koji

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=179029

Hello and thank you for your answer.

I know there are a thousand ways to grab it, or use a live CD partition system or something.

I just wonder why it's not included in the standard repos.

[tox]

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=179029 should be in EL6 ..search for it

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http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=202523 download the source and make it into a RHEL6 rpm

[Bibelo]

Hello and thank you for your replies.

I know there's a thousand ways to get gparted. Personnaly, I use dag's repos.

My question is : what RH is not using the excellent partition manager for after the installation ? I don't get their logic.

[forkbomb]

My question is : what RH is not using the excellent partition manager for after the installation ? I don't get their logic.My question is why you think anybody here would be able to answer that. Go ask the folks at RH, not on a users-helping-users forum for Fedora.