Gnome Partition Editor
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2008/09/07 23:20 | by ipaddr ]
2008/09/07 23:20 | by ipaddr ]
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.
A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.
GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). See Features, before using it.
GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables.
Several (optional) "file system" tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted.
These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of GParted.
GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm for its Graphical User Interface (GUI). The general approach is to keep the Graphical User Interface as simple as possible. Every attempt was made to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
GParted comes under the terms of the General Public License
Visual Diff Tools in Linux
[ 2008/09/07 21:05 | by ipaddr ]
2008/09/07 21:05 | by ipaddr ]
Running the regular diff between two text files to see the differences is not so elegant for the human eye to decode. Luckily there are plenty of tools out there to make this easy.
Command Line:
sdiff file-1 file-2
This is a much more elegant tool compared to diff, if you are looking for a quick command-line utility that shows the difference between two text files. While using it on big files, its better to pipe the output to less command.
sdiff file1 file2 | less
Disadvantage - this is a read-only output. No editing or merging is possible. But its a great tool for a quick visual inspection.
vimdiff file-1 file-2
This can open "n" number of files in a vertically split vim environment. This has color highlighting to specify the areas that differ in the file. Editing is possible. This is a complete vim-environment, so all the vim keys are usable.
Emacs:
M-x ediff-buffers
This is an emacs equivalent of vimdiff with copy to left, copy to right, merge changes and much more. This is a special ediff mode which has its own key bindings. Hit ? to get help on the keyboard shortcuts.
Colored highlighting for distinguishing differences. Easy navigation to diff regions.
A maximum of 3 files can be compared and merged. Both comand-line and gui mode are available.
Visual Tools:
Meld:
Can compare two or three files and allows editing. The differences are dynamically updated. This can work with version control systems like CVS, SVN etc. Folder comparison is possible.
Guiffy:
Multi-platform visual diff and merge tool. Has a three-pane view for comparing two-files and the third pane to view the merged output file. Works in Window, Linux and Mac OS X. Folder comparison is possible.
I am sure there are more tools out there (such as xxdiff) but I don't feel like reviewing them (too ugly). :)
kdiff3:
An excellent tool from the kde bunch. I loved it. Has the option to compare 2 or 3 files. Has an extra window pane to look at the out of the merged file. Directory differences and merging are possible.
Command Line:
sdiff file-1 file-2
This is a much more elegant tool compared to diff, if you are looking for a quick command-line utility that shows the difference between two text files. While using it on big files, its better to pipe the output to less command.
sdiff file1 file2 | less
Disadvantage - this is a read-only output. No editing or merging is possible. But its a great tool for a quick visual inspection.
vimdiff file-1 file-2
This can open "n" number of files in a vertically split vim environment. This has color highlighting to specify the areas that differ in the file. Editing is possible. This is a complete vim-environment, so all the vim keys are usable.
Emacs:
M-x ediff-buffers
This is an emacs equivalent of vimdiff with copy to left, copy to right, merge changes and much more. This is a special ediff mode which has its own key bindings. Hit ? to get help on the keyboard shortcuts.
Colored highlighting for distinguishing differences. Easy navigation to diff regions.
A maximum of 3 files can be compared and merged. Both comand-line and gui mode are available.
Visual Tools:
Meld:
Can compare two or three files and allows editing. The differences are dynamically updated. This can work with version control systems like CVS, SVN etc. Folder comparison is possible.
Guiffy:
Multi-platform visual diff and merge tool. Has a three-pane view for comparing two-files and the third pane to view the merged output file. Works in Window, Linux and Mac OS X. Folder comparison is possible.
I am sure there are more tools out there (such as xxdiff) but I don't feel like reviewing them (too ugly). :)
kdiff3:
An excellent tool from the kde bunch. I loved it. Has the option to compare 2 or 3 files. Has an extra window pane to look at the out of the merged file. Directory differences and merging are possible.
