add to package wishlist: gpart

Vitaly Babiy VBabiy at verizon.net
Sun Aug 5 20:15:08 UTC 2007


Hello,
gparted is in included with the live cd. And it is also in the repos
using  "sudo apt-get install gparted"


On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 19:57 +0000, Florin Andrei wrote:
> My wife's Win XP system mysteriously lost its partition table and could 
> not boot up anymore. I booted up the Ubuntu 7.04 live CD, downloaded 
> gpart and was able to restore the partition table, just enough to backup 
> everything over the network.
> 
> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
> 
> My only issue is that gpart is not available via apt-get, I had to 
> download the binary myself. It's a minor issue, but this software is 
> valuable enough to be included in one of the big package repositories.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 





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