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I- What's it?

+ + The purpose of the DiskDrake project is to make easier the hard disk + partitionning. It is graphical, simple and powerful. The license is + the GPL (General Public License). +
+ Different skill levels will be available (newbie, advanced user, expert). +
+ It's written entirely in Perl and Perl/Gtk. It uses resize_fat which is + a perl rewrite of the work of Andrew Clausen (libresize). +

+ DiskDrake is a project from MandrakeSoft, the company behind the popular + Linux-Mandrake + operating-system. +

+ A FAQ is in construction. + +

II - What's available now

+ + DiskDrake should be usable now... + + it can: +
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  • create partitions +
  • delete partitions +
  • change type of partition +
  • format partitions +
  • assign a mount point (updated(21/07/99) propose a list + of classic mount points and verify the mount point is valid) +
  • mount partitions +
  • resize fat partitions +
  • resize partitions (when not caring loosing its data) +
  • clear partition table +
  • auto allocation (usefull for install) +
  • write fstab +
+ +with nice contextual menu (shortcuts available, but dangerous as all actions are +available, whereas with the contextual menu these actions are hidden. This will +change) + +

updated(25/07/99) + A new Expert button appear now. It toggles between + expert and normal mode. Some changes in information displayed: +

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  • when you click (or focus) the drive tab (eg: hda), you get + information about your drive: size, geometry + (cylinders/sectors/heads number), type (eg: IBM DDRS-39130D), and bus/id. + In normal mode you have only the size. +
  • the windows drive letter (eg: C: D: ...) +
  • the `start sector' information from normal mode, it still appears in + expert mode +
  • the start&end cylinder of each partition is now displayed in expert + mode +
  • the type is displayed numerically in expert mode +
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updated(25/07/99) + The mount point in the `Create' window and `Change type' window is now a + combo box. It lets you choose between classical mount points (/ /usr /var + ...) but with already allocated mount points removed. + +

III - Actual developpment

+ + We need people!!! + +
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  • Tests and remove bugs (no known yet :) +
  • integrate ext2resize (which has been release in version 1.0.0 updated(26/07/99)) +
  • add possibility to move partition without loosing data (by copying all + data) updated +
  • Improve the look +
  • Add a text-only version +
  • Help text, tutorial... +
  • Internationalization +
  • Add some features... +
  • Packaging (rpm, deb, slp...) +
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IV- ScreenShot

+ + Warning: features was the main focus, so don't be too hard :) + +

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DiskDrake main interface
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create dialog box
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V - Contacts

+ + A Mailing List has been created to allow developpers to discuss about DiskDrake.
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+ Send a mail to: sympa@linux-mandrake.com + +
Put in the subject: subscribe diskdrake +
When you're subscribed, send your messages to: diskdrake@linux-mandrake.com + +

Otherwise you can contact directly the project leader. + +

VI - Download

+ + Warning: You must have Gtk-Perl. + You can get the rpm from the Cooker distribution. + +

You also need perl version 5.00503 or better + +

Here you can find the plain tgz or a rpm: + diskdrake (Other mirrors in Cooker) + +

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+Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack +

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