Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Package: debian-live
> Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello
>
> Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD.
>
> Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge
> root file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted
> which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much
> more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's
> especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some
> people.
>
> The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0
> would just be 7 MB.
>
Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be
installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools
would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that
normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included.
The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools
designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any
desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by
third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For
Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to
do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly
with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated
calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work.
Regards,
Ben
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