New Disk Wizard

Introduction

This is a plugin to add new disks to an Amahi HDA in a "seamless as possible" fashion.

CAUTION: If you mount a drive and at some point remove it, ensure you remove the appropriate entry from the /etc/fstab. If you don't, your HDA will boot into Emergency Mode and be inoperable.

Assumptions and Dependencies

Features

• Create partition tables, (e.g., msdos or gpt)
• Create, move, copy, resize, check, label, set new UUID, and delete partitions
• Enable and disable partition flags, (e.g., boot or hidden)
• Align partitions to mebibyte (MiB) or traditional cylinder boundaries
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

Devices supported

• Hard disk drives (e.g., SATA, IDE, and SCSI)
• Flash memory devices, such as USB memory sticks and Solid State Drives (SSD's)
• RAID Devices (hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID)
• All sector sizes (e.g., devices with 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors and more)

Disk-Wizard does not support logical volume management (LVM2) at present.

The Disk-Wizard uses a wide variety of third party libraries and tools which perform these operations. Disk-Wizard is a frontend, which brings together all these underlying functions and processes, and presents them in a graphical and accessible way.

There is a list of dependencies, or a list of packages required for the program to work. In this occasion, they are file system tools.

• ntfsprogs
• udisks2
• e2fsprogs
• hdparm

File system support

File system	Detect	Read	Create	Grow	Shrink	Move	Copy	Check	Label	UUID	Required software
ext2	✓	✓	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓	✕	e2fsprogs
ext3	✓	✓	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓	✕	e2fsprogs
ext4	✓	✓	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓	✕	e2fsprogs v1.41+
f2fs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	f2fs-tools
fat16	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	dosfstools
fat32	✓	✓	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	dosfstools
hfs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	hfsutils
hfs+	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	hfsprogs
jfs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	jfsutils
linux-swap	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	util-linux
lvm2 pv	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	lvm2
nilfs2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nilfs-utils
ntfs	✓	✓	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓	✕	ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs
reiser4	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	reiser4progs
reiserfs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	reiserfsprogs
ufs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
xfs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	xfsprogs, xfsdump

Legend

✓✓ Supported offline and online. For example, unmounted and mounted.

✓ Supported offline only.

✕ Not supported.

N/A Not applicable