Re: Disks

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> - Can we introduce a package dependency on parted, or should we grab the code?

For initial work, I would check the source code for parted unmodified
into CVS.  Maybe later, when the project matures and parted is
ubiquitous we can add a dependency, for now, lets just include it.

> - Should we use the command-line parted tool, or write the backend in C and
>   link with libparted? The latter would save some parsing.

I also like the idea of linking against libparted.

> - What about HP and Solaris? GNU parted doesn't support those, as far as I
>   can see. Should we use a fallback, or should we look for/make something
>   entirely different from parted that supports all systems?

My guess is that we will need to write code for those.  For now, lets
just suggest that this is not supported (because we need to get stuff
to test this on).

Best wishes,
Miguel.