disk management

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 14 Jun 2009 13:51:35 David McGlone wrote:
> On Sunday 14 June 2009 08:18:12 am Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 Jun 2009 12:48:32 David Fletcher wrote:
> > > On Sunday 14 Jun 2009, David McGlone wrote:
> > > > Hey guys, what was the program called in KDE 3.x's control center to
> > > > edit partitions, etc and is it available for 4.x?
> > >
> > > There's something in the system section of my menus called QTParted.
> > >
> > > Is that it?
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
> > Yeah that would be it. Under Jaunty I can't find it in the repos but you
> > can install gparted, which is the gtk version of the same thing.
> 
> Ok, I installed gparted and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I remember 
> back in kde 3.x the partition manager in the control center would allow us to 
> specify if users can mount/unmount the device, etc etc.

In that case it's not parted you want, either the g- or qt- flavour. I guess that was some kcontrol module that may have disappeared in KDE4. :( I don't remember ever having seen it myself though :~

The fstab option to allow users to mount devices is 'user', in case that's any help.

Mark

> 
> If it's QTparted as David suggested, and it's not in the repos as Mark 
> suggested,(which I can't seem to find it either) I'm gonna be bummed.
> 
> It was a good tool, fast and easy to use for quick edits without having to 
> remember how to edit fstab by hand.
> 
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