Gparted-like program for disk analysis

[balanga]

Can anyone suggest a FreeBSD program similar to Gparted which can analyse a disk in terms of partitions and filesystems. I have a disk where I am unable to identify the filesystems on the partitions, and don't know how to identify them...

 

[Oko]

FreeBSD has gpart

 

[Maxnix]

You can use file -s /dev/<your_partition> to identify the filesystem and print other infos.

 

[tobik@]

FreeBSD has gpart

Exactly. Use fstyp(8) to identify the filesystem, though note that it only detects filesystems you can actually mount in FreeBSD.

 

[tingo]

I like sysutils/disktype, it does a good job of identifying unknown disk and their partitions (also works on image files). Small, has few dependencies, easily installed.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Alain De Vos wrote:

I have written a gtk3-gui on top of gparted. …



…

Alain, please, might you make the code available?

I know, the underlying software is not without limitations, but something akin to GParted could please users who want, or need, a GUI to such things.

(There is something with a GUI in the ports tree, but I can't recall its name at the moment, and it's not on a par with GParted.)

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A few notes:

GParted - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

… When I last performed data recovery for a colleague, I used (amongst other things) DDRescue-GUI. From my notes at the time: "Booted instead from a USB flash drive with the latest image for Kubuntu, with gparted and DDRescue-GUI added.". …

Phishfry wrote:

… not a task for newbies.

gparted LiveCD supports UFS but not grow and shrink.

… no alternative but command line. …

And so on.

Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

Hello all, There is a thread on the freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list seeking project ideas. If you have ideas about projects that the Foundation could support, please leave your feedback. -- Joe (with Foundation hat on)

forums.freebsd.org

From page 6:

… is it too late to add an idea that was not expressed (here) before the summary was published?

I assume, not too late (a handful of additions since then).

 

[vt320]

Alternate command-line tool gpart in FreeBSD:
brut-1.55_2 Multitool, Partition Editor, Manage User/Groups