On Friday, December 03, 2010 09:17:40 am Chris Adams wrote: > I find parted awkward to use myself. You still have to change options > to show sector alignment, and as far as I can tell, you can't actually > set partition types if needed (you can chose from its recognized "flags" > but that is it). The only advantage to parted is that it can handle GPT > labels (AFAIK it is the only tool in the distribution that can do that).
gdisk is in Fedora; should eventually make its way into EPEL6 (it's not there right now as far as I can see, but I've only looked at a couple of mirrors) if it's not already in RHEL6 (I didn't see it in any of the betas, and it's not in any of the released SRPMS). It allows much lower level work than parted will allow. The F12/13/14 source RPM should rebuild fairly easily under EL6. It works very much like fdisk, but using GPT instead. I know of one use case with GPT where parted makes a mistake in the type of the partition, but gdisk is able to fix it. This is where Chameleon is the bootloader, and the default parted partition type isn't picked up by Chameleon, and must be changed in order to allow boot from the Linux partition. That is admittedly a corner case for a very niche audience. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-beta-list mailing list rhelv6-beta-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list
