[Fedora-spins] more rescue type tools on live media?

[Jon Stanley]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> I use spins as back up rescue media. I'd just assume be able to use one of
> the standard spins (typically games or Gnome) as my rescue image and would
> like to have a fairly complete set of rescue tools available. So I like the
> idea of including a partitioning tool. I usually use fdisk myself, but I
> don't have a problem with gparted being the one we include.

fdisk only works for legacy DOS labeled disks - it won't work with
newer GPT-style disklabels. So it makes sense to have something that
would, and gparted fills the bill there. Not entirely sure what other
tools would be useful, but I'm sure there are others.

Thoughts?