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Re: Feature request: Show gaps and partitions sizes
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ROunofF |
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Re: Feature request: Show gaps and partitions sizes |
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Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:51:03 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:29:28AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:54:47PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > There would be two things that would make parted more useful.
> >
> > 1) If the partitions are not consequent, ie. there is free space
> > between them - a gap - , it would be good if the "print" command
> > reported [gap XXX bytes, kilos ...] between them.
> >
> > Looking at the pure BEG and END values is hard to "see" where the gaps would
> > be and how to make informed partition chnages.
>
> OK, I'm convinced. Anyone else have an opinion?
That's sound fair with me... Displaying free space is a good idea so you
can figure out directly how your disk is organised.
>
> > 2) The "print" listing is desperately missing the total size of the
> > partition.
> > This would help great deal deciding how to resize or chnage the partitions.
>
> Can't fit everything! You can type "print 5" to find the size of
> partition 5, but if you didn't realize that, then 90% of users probably
> won't either.
>
Woah I didn't figured out that one by myself... Maybe add a message at
the end of print stating: use print # where # is the number of the
partition you want detailed information
> > Examples below. Note, I did not change the values, just added the cases
> > I raised for 1 and 2 to show what I meant.
>
> I only got one example.
>
> > This field could record the END - START
> > |
> > Minor Start End Size Type Filesystem Flags
> > 1 0.031 753.046 primary ext2 boot
> > 2 753.047 28615.781 extended lba
> > 5 753.078 4702.851 logical ext3
> > [gap 2500k]
> > 6 4702.882 8704.335 logical ext3
> > 7 8704.367 26711.015 logical ext3
> > [gap 5567k]
> > 8 28099.015 28615.781 logical linux-swap
>
> [the one example]
>
> Note: some partition table formats have partition names. These also
> take up screen space...
>
Maybe there could be some flag to the print command like print -s would
printed the size. We need to keep the printing easy to read on a normal
console after all it's a console based applications :)
But I really think the gap should show up in the
default listing :
7 8704.367 26711.015 logical ext3
F 26711.0xx 28099.0xx
free space
8 28099.015 28615.781 logical linux-swap
Or something similair maybe? The F as the partition number attract the
eyes there and make sure ppl see it... If we only listed the Type as
Free some ppl won't see it maybe ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
>
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