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Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager

Posted by timothy on from the nostalgia-is-a-hard-force-to-overcome dept.

sfcrazy writes Developer Vratislav Podzimek has announced the next-gen partition manager for Fedora, blivet-gui. It is eventually going to replace GParted, the most popular GUI based partition manager, found in all major distros. The new tool is named blivet-gui after the blivet python library (originally Anaconda's storage management and configuration tool). The need of a new partition manager stems from the fact that none of the existing GUI partitioning tools supports all modern storage technologies. Fedora's Anaconda base supports all, though, and is hence chosen as the back-end for this new tool. The application is only a few months old but is already looking nice and useful. Features like RAID and BTRFS support are being worked on. Vojtech Trefny is the other developer working with Vratislav on blivet-gui. Here's the announcement.

5 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The origin of the term "blivet" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag,

    A fantastic deal! if you're a dung beetle.

  2. Re:So.... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you the Judean People's Front?

    Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.

    P.F.J.: Yeah...

    JUDITH: Splitters.

    P.F.J.: Splitters...

    FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.

    P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

    LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.

    P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  3. Re:What does it support that others don't? by eulernet · · Score: 5, Funny

    slashdvertisement:

    Blivet: yes
    GParted: no

  4. Re:How to know if a component of Linux.. by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be worse: it could have been written by Lennart Poettering.

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    Hail Eris, full of mischief...

    E pluribus sanguinem
  5. Re:How to know if a component of Linux.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could be worse: it could have been written by Lennart Poettering.

    Hey, you watch your tone! Lennart's arguably leading Linux development almost single-handedly now. Linus might be focused entirely on the kernel, but Lennart is doing all the work on system elements that are crucial to bring Linux into modern times. After Linus, Lennart's now the most prolific (and famous) Linux contributor of all time.

    Of course I'm just an AC, so there's no reason to listen to me. But I'm sure once Bennett Haselton write an article on systemd, you can be Slashdot will finally understand the genius of Lennart!