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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/geomman.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/geomman.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fd6ad08676 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/geomman.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +=== Geomman Development + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/FullDiskAdministrationToolForFreeBSD[Geomman GSoC wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/FullDiskAdministrationToolForFreeBSD[] + +link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[geomman Gitlab repository] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[] + +link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog[bsddialog repository] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog[] + +link:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sade&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports[sade] URL: link:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sade&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports[] + +Contact: Braulio Rivas <brauliorivas@FreeBSD.org> + +Geomman is a new partition tool based on man:sade[8] that brings more functionality such as moving, copying, and pasting partitions. +Geomman is part of Google Summer of Code 2025. +Currently, it is available in a Gitlab repository. +But at some future time, it is expected to become a tool in the base system. + +Geomman is a TUI designed to allow to growing, shrinking, moving, copying, and pasting partitions with filesystems other than UFS. +For example, users may be able to create an exFAT partition, as well as to resize an ext4 filesystem. +This would make partition management easier, because there are tools for each individual task (mainly depending on the filesystem), but none that concentrates all cases in a single tool. + +For the moment, geomman only allows copying and pasting partitions. +However, for the next report the tool should be almost finished. + +Currently, I am working on a mechanism to move partitions using man:dd[1]. +Other approaches may be possible, so any help is very welcome. + +The next steps for geomman are: + +* Develop a way of moving partitions. +* Handle duplicate UUIDs between partitions when using dd. +* Add options to create, grow, and shrink more filesystem types. + +Sponsor: Google Summer of Code |