Disk and Partition Management

[TheBigAmbulance]

Is that module for the "Systems Settings" fixed in this version, or is that more of a KDE4 issue?

I've missed it since KDE 3.x

[Teunis]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

It was missing for a while.
I started using KDiskFree and Dolphin for quick access.

Presently there is a partition manager who's GUI looks a lot like *Parted.

[Rog131]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

Hmm - what are you looking ?

I can find:

System Settings > Device Information - shows hardware information



KDE Info Center > Partitions - Shows partition information



System > Partition Editor (KDE Partiton editor) - manager for the disks, partitions and file systems.

[TheBigAmbulance]

EDIT: Disk and MOUNT Management

Sorry guys... I guess there was a module that you could control mount points, disks and the like. I'm trying to dig up an old 8.04 CD to give you the exact name because it escapes me right at the moment.

[dibl]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

There was the KDE 3 "Disks & Filesystems" utility in the system settings utility. It was only semi-reliable -- it sometimes gave flaky output, too.

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

OK, got my Kubuntu 8.04 live cd (Man, that takes a guy back)...

dibl was right. It's was under "System Settings>Advanced>Disk & Filesystems"

I guess what I'm looking for would be a mount manager in kde 4.2.x.

[Qqmike]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

Yep, I've got Disk & Filesystems in my 8,04.3 and it works great for me, always did.
Someone told me about mountmanager (?), I'm forgetting the details, tried it once, but it is no D&F.

[vinnywright]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

I'm showing in synaptic ..... MountManager

User-friendly management of disks and partitions

The basic functionalities of MountManager are:
- Mount and unmount partitions (ext3/2, ntfs, swap, fat, reiserfs, iso9660,
udf, ...)
- Show all logical and physical disks
- Change config file /etc/fstab
- Descriptions of options and other settings of mounting
- Restoration system
- Images mounting and unmounting (Nrg, Mdf , Ccd, Bin , etc)
- Udev rules creation
- Disk wizard
- Etc...

Plugins are supported and there is good English and Russian documentations to
help develop new plugins.

havent tryd it but thare it is.

VINNY

EDIT: ok hears a screeney.......looks dangerus if you dont know what your dowing....

[img width=400 height=300]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/KDE432-4.png[/img]

[molostoff]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

OK, got my Kubuntu 8.04 live cd (Man, that takes a guy back)...

dibl was right. It's was under "System Settings>Advanced>Disk & Filesystems"

I guess what I'm looking for would be a mount manager in kde 4.2.x.

I am not sure that it is the same as you need, but I use partitionmanager package (which is a tool running as a standalone and as a systemsettings module). Looks enough to move/resize/mount/unmount.

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

Yeah, between GParted or KDE Partition Manager I can manage partitions. What I'm looking for is the functionality of setting up '/dev/sda2' as '/home' without manually editing /etc/fstab.

[dibl]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

What I'm looking for is the functionality of setting up '/dev/sda2' as '/home' without manually editing /etc/fstab.

You are working very hard to avoid what is really pretty easy:

1. Alt-F2 "kdesudo kate /etc/fstab"

2. Open a konsole window and issue

sudo blkid

3. Observe the output, which will look a bit like this:

dibl@karmic:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for dibl:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="KUBUNTU" UUID="b09c7fff-fbd3-4094-9fe5-de62e35e778f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="MUSIC" UUID="1e908a65-7ddb-4a1f-9913-d5a82ddb3137" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="DOCS&PIX" UUID="bef7fc54-d120-4869-920c-edc64a214bae" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="VIDEOS" UUID="932854dc-d16b-4612-9bd7-37345d1def09" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="DOCSPIXBAK" UUID="2b7ce29a-4550-4c6f-9171-8406d9688da7" TYPE="jfs"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="MUSICBAK" UUID="7c4bd67a-3c50-4bdc-9a4b-a756eb3efd2a" TYPE="jfs"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="VIDEOSBAK" UUID="86da0233-4b7e-4ff9-b9f1-0ca338922c37" TYPE="jfs"

4. Highlight the UUID of your /dev/sda2, and "copy" it.

5. In kate, start a new line in /etc/fstab that begins "UUID=" and then paste in the UUID that you copied from Konsole. This will make a new line that looks like this:

UUID="21c86c34-f1b9-4404-851e-36ce8fce4f5c"

So you modify it to do these things:

(a) delete the quote marks
(b) add the mount point and filesystem type
(c) add the mount options

so it ends up looking something like this:

UUID=21c86c34-f1b9-4404-851e-36ce8fce4f5c /home ext3 auto,users,rw,exec,noatime, 0 2

Then you "File, Save" in kate, and exit, and in Konsole you issue

sudo mount -a

You can confirm that it is mounted correctly with

mount

and observe the output.

That's it -- you're done, and it will automatically be mounted correctly at each boot. Takes about 3 minutes, if you don't rush it.

[Qqmike]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

PC #1, 2 HDs, 15 partitions on one; 6 on the other
PC #2, 8 partitions
...

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

Yeah, I agree. Linux CLI is sometimes so much better than gui. Looking for something that is spelled out pretty plainly in the man pages for mount and /etc/fstab is a little much. I was just more curious at what happened to the utility I used to use in KDE 3.5, and if there was a replacement. But typically after the initial setup, you rarely would have to edit the fstab at all.

Thanks all who took time to respond!!!

[kubicle]

Re: Disk and Partition Management

I was just more curious at what happened to the utility I used to use in KDE 3.5, and if there was a replacement.

The module was a part of the "guidance" modules, which included a few kcontrol add-ons:
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/guidance/
And I don't think it has been ported to KDE4.

(IMHO the mountconfig module was a tad buggy)