


System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
If you really care about the subject matter, please read:
http://blog.volker-lanz.de/2010/05/30/new-in-kde-partition-manager-1-1-iii-support-for-4096-byte-sectors/
This article discusses why what you encounter currently happens (in 1.0.x) and why that's the expected behaviour. It also gives an overview on why and how that will change in future versions.
- Sep 24 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
See
http://blog.volker-lanz.de/2010/05/30/new-in-kde-partition-manager-1-1-iii-support-for-4096-byte-sectors/
for more information about this topic. - Sep 04 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
Why did you need to do that? The order of partition table entries usually does not matter. - Jun 14 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
However, this is a little bit outside the scope of KDE Partition Manager itself, so it would be best to suggest this on the KDE brainstorm forum:
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#cat83
- Jun 05 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
If you're running Vista or Windows 7 and used it to partition your hard drive, you will have partitions aligned at MiB boundaries. KDE Partition Manager 1.0.x does not support that and will align partitions the way it was the norm for 25 years.
The next feature release, 1.1, will support different aligning schemes.
Background reading:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives
- May 18 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
In the next feature release there will be support to set labels for fat volumes.
- Mar 26 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
1.0.x does however expose its actions over DBUS. You can use qdbus to explore what these actions are. - Mar 19 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
In the next feature release there will be some new feature to (optionally) account for MS Windows Vista/7's way of aligning partitions (which is optimized for 4k-sector-size hard disks). - Feb 22 2010

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

Plasma 4 Extensions by jaegerschnitzel 1069 comments
Kudos! Great work! - Aug 17 2009

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
Anyway, from RC1 on ext4 should work even when using patched libparteds from Ubuntu or other distributions. - Aug 03 2009

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
The bad news: Depending on the Linux distribution you use you might encounter
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195243
with any KDE Partition Manager version currently released in binary form. The next binary release will include the fix already committed to SVN for this.
- Jul 16 2009

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It's a lot less user friendly, mind you, because kcm's cannot have menus. But it's there and it's working, too ;-). - Apr 30 2009

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
Please, do report this on http://bugs.kde.org. Doing so will greatly help fixing a bug like this.
Thank you very much. - Feb 22 2009

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
There are others too, like support for additional file systems (file systems being a hot topic currently with stuff like ext4 and btrfs coming up).
Additionally, many things in this regard (SMART and other device related matters) should in my opinion be supported by KDE's own "Solid" hardware layer, thus there are opportunities for synergetic effects.
However, the short term plan is now to stabilize the application for a rock solid 1.0.0 release. That should happen pretty soon, given the current state of things. Afterwards new features like the above mentioned ones will come into focus.
Feature requests, bug reports and patches are all welcome. Please use bugs.kde.org for that, though, so nothing gets lost. ;-)
- Oct 29 2008

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KDE Partition Manager strives to do more than just being a front end for libparted (as goes GParted, by the way). I therefore don't think the <xyz>Parted naming scheme is really that appropriate (for either of them, but for GParted it's a little late ;-)). - Sep 25 2008

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
I'm not a big fan of naming KDE applications with a "k" in front. Also, once KDE Partition Manager is part of your distribution, you're going to run it from the KDE Menu anyway, so you won't need to know the executable name.
The KDE project is, I think, trying to get away from the "k<whatever>" naming schemes itself. - Sep 25 2008

System Software by VolkerLanz 104 comments
This is a KDE4 app, so all dockable panels can be turned on and off, resized, stacked on top of each other etc. If a user does not want to see the log output panel, he can just close it. The default for both the log output and the information pane is off.
I did think about including the devices in the main "partition tree view" for a while, but decided against it to keep the partition tree view as simple as possible. Additionally, there _are_people with six or more external hard disks who might not really want to have them all in one big tree. I'm not sure if my decision to keep this separate was the right one. I might reconsider that depending on more user feedback.
The information panel shows context-sensitive information, i.e., if you select a device but no partition, it shows information about the device itself that is not otherwise available. You're right though that the information there about the currently selected partition is either redundant with the partition tree view or not terribly interesting to the end user (start and end sector, number of sectors). I'll see what I can do about that.
- Sep 19 2008

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