Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility
For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch
on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away
from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the
debian-installer partition management tool. This was my first time
using SATA, LVM, and RAID -- I figured I'd play with all the new
buzzwords while I had the opportunity -- and partman made it all quite
simple!
Once I had my system up and running, I decided to go back and tweak a
couple things in the partitioning / LVM / RAID scheme. After looking
for a bit, I didn't find a utility [1] quite as good as partman for
this task, so I fell back to the command line utilities fdisk, lvm,
and mdadm. My sense of it is that there isn't a tool packaged in
Debian to fill this need -- although feel free to give suggestions at
this point.
I suggest one of two things, or if there's time both! 1. Port partman
from debian-installer to make it a full fledged utility. 2. Port
whatever tool Red Hat uses [2] for this same task and package it for
Debian. I haven't used the latter, so the former would be my
preference. Can someone more familiar with partman and
debian-installer give an indication of how much work this would be?
Cheers!
Shaun
[1] qtparted is a nice tool, but doesn't handle LVM or RAID yet as far
as I know. webmin-lvm is a capable looking tool though.
[2] I think this tool might be called DiskDruid, but I'm quite out of
touch with Red Hat state-of-the-art.
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