Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

Qole asked me to see if I could hack a version of gparted for maemo, as it was working under Debian chroot.

This only works in flash, if you fire it up in a boot from SD partition the tablet will reboot while trying to scan /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk1. I assume this is because of the initfs issue with bootmenu.


The approach I took was using several debs from Debian and some compiled apps from me.

I ran into several problems, but was able to overcome all of them so far.

The install is 20MB (6MB download, 20MB on Disk, 10MB on flash)

This will also give you sudo access

Ignore the memory card corrupted errors

http://penguinbait.com/gparted-hack.deb

I think this is working well, let me know if you have any problems 11/16/08

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

I have found an issue with formating swap partitions on this. It calls mkswap which is busybox version. I created a script called /usr/GPARTED/bin/mkswap it contains

/sbin/mkswap $3

When gparted calls it "mkswap -L "" /dev/mmcblk0p3"

mkswap for busybox does not support the -L "label"

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

The download link doesn't seem to work, i keep getting a 404 error. :(

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

Sorry, I have no ideas, that's the problem. There's some little daemon in there trying to remount mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk1p1 any time there's any change to those partitions...

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

DOH, nobody said anything :D:D:D

I fixed it I mistyped the name

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

I will figure something out, but for now, I gotta go trick-or-treating with the kids.

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

Man, my frends still trick-or-treat even though there 16+.

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

UPDATE: their seems to be a packaging conflict problem; Here are the errors

dpkg --install /media/mmc2/gparted-hack.deb
(Reading database ... 16121 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gparted-hack (from /media/mmc2/gparted-hack.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /media/mmc2/gparted-hack.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/e2fsprogs/initrd.ext3-add-journal', which is also in package e2fsprogs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/media/mmc2/gparted-hack.deb

Do you think it is possible to fix this problem?, possiblly by modifing the postinstall and control file?

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

Yeah I can fix, along with the mkswap issue. I want to resolve the mounting issue before I spin up a new version.

Re: Gparted - Hacked from Debian for 2008 OS
 

The quick way to remove that problem yourself, without uninstalling anything, is to use 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /media/mmc2/gparted-hack.deb' (or --force-all, if you are feeling gung-ho :p).