Fedora's Blivet Partition Manager Is Getting A New GUI

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora's Blivet Partition Manager Is Getting A New GUI

Vojtech Trefny has been working on blivet-gui for more than one year as a storage and partition manager for Fedora. Blivet-GUI's design was originally inspired by the popular GParted interface while using the Blivet back-end library for storage management that's used by Fedora's Anaconda Installer. Blivet-GUI is now in process of having an overhauled user-interface...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Blivet-GUI-Overhaul

[zeroepoch]

I really hope this makes it into the Fedora installer at some point. The current manual partitioning interface is a pain when you want raid or a specific partition order. It's not always clear what you will get in the end right now.

[yoshi314]

I hope it gets implemented and fast. Current partition setup in installer is completely counter-intuitive, unless you start with an empty hard disk.

So much so, that i rather bootstrap an installation with yum/dnf from fedora livecd instead of dealing with that confusing mess.

[flecht]

It's confusing even if you start with blank HDD. I struggled with it wile trying to install CentOS7 on top of 2 HDDs ? MD RAID1 for /boot and LVM on top of MD RAID1 for the rest. I wasted much of my time just trying to understand what exacly it's going to do.

Talking about Fedora, confusing installer was one of the reasons why I migrated my main computer to different distro.

[Exospecie]

I just finished setting up a sever using Blivet for partitioning just a couple of days ago and didn't find it all that difficult. On one small drive, I set up /boot, /swap, and /home and built a RAID5 array out of the remaining large drives.

What I really don't like about Blivet is that you cannot select multiple drives at a time to setup as a RAID partition. You have to manually create each one individually and then build the RAID and only after that can you tell it what mount point it will be.