Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Ben,
I would consider taking on the task of maintaining the necessary files for a rescue image.
I haven't looked into what is involved, but if you can point me to some docs I will take a look and see if it will fit with my time constraints.
Sincerely,
Donald
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Armstrong [mailto:synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:05 AM
To: Christian Hammers; 812358@bugs.debian.org
Subject: 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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