where is 'disks-admin' in Lenny

kushalkoolwal · 01-14-2009, 02:17 PM

I have been using disks-admin utility as GNOME application since sarge. This utility has been a part of gnome-system-tools but is no longer there from Lenny.

I checked the bug report for the package and it seems that the last comment was

Quote:

The disks-admin tool is not part of gnome-system-tools anymore, which
makes this bug obsolete.

However it does not say if they have discontinued the utility or is now a part of some other package. I have tried searching for this utility in the testing/sid repo (x86) and I wasn't able to find it.

Any ideas? Also can anybody recommend a substitute for it? I don't like qparted - too bloated for me.

Thanks

pljvaldez · 01-14-2009, 03:46 PM

I googled around a bit and it looks like the utility would have needed a complete re-write to function in the latest gnome/kernel structure, so they just abandoned it upstream. You could probably download the source from the Etch repositories and see if you can get it to work. I typically use GParted.

farslayer · 01-14-2009, 03:56 PM

well theres qtparted.. with the qt front end rather than the gtk front end of gparted.. or just plain old parted