Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest, which was used to graphically view the layout of the drives on the system, making it easy to see RAID, and volume groups, etc, and view the health of the individual drives using SMART data. Later this was renames gnome-system-disk (is this a fork, or did GNOME just grab it as their own?) but was sill available.
I never fould the action items in the program all that useful, I prefer to use other tools to creat RAID arrays, play with LVM, etc, but the tool was really useful to visualize complex storage setups, particularly if you are going into a system you didn't set up, or did so long ago. What's the tool which replaces this? This should be maintained by Redhat as a system tool, since I can't find anything in RHEL7 which seems to provide the information, and I am considering upgrading a server farm, with at most any two servers alike. They bought what IBM told them was the best buy, some have hardware RAID, some software RAID, some whatever dm sets up.
There must be some visualization tool, right?
On 12/19/14 08:13, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest, which was used to graphically view the layout of the drives on the system, making it easy to see RAID, and volume groups, etc, and view the health of the individual drives using SMART data. Later this was renames gnome-system-disk (is this a fork, or did GNOME just grab it as their own?) but was sill available.
I never fould the action items in the program all that useful, I prefer to use other tools to creat RAID arrays, play with LVM, etc, but the tool was really useful to visualize complex storage setups, particularly if you are going into a system you didn't set up, or did so long ago. What's the tool which replaces this? This should be maintained by Redhat as a system tool, since I can't find anything in RHEL7 which seems to provide the information, and I am considering upgrading a server farm, with at most any two servers alike. They bought what IBM told them was the best buy, some have hardware RAID, some software RAID, some whatever dm sets up.
There must be some visualization tool, right?
gnome-disks
On 12/18/2014 07:40 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote:
Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest
The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default :-).
it is actually gnome-disk-utility Loaded plugins: langpacks Package gnome-disk-utility-3.14.0-1.fc21.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
On 12/19/2014 12:28 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 12/18/2014 07:40 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote:
Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest
The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default :-).
it is actually gnome-disk-utility Loaded plugins: langpacks Package gnome-disk-utility-3.14.0-1.fc21.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
The binary is called */usr/bin/gnome-disks*
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:35 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 12/19/2014 12:28 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 12/18/2014 07:40 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote:
Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest
The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default :-).
it is actually gnome-disk-utility Loaded plugins: langpacks Package gnome-disk-utility-3.14.0-1.fc21.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
The binary is called */usr/bin/gnome-disks*
As a KDE user I hadn't been aware of this, so I tried it out. Looks nice, but the partition size information it gives is different from that shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and gparted.
poc
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
the partition size information it gives is different from that shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and gparted.
Metric versus imperial?
On 19 December 2014 at 15:42, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
the partition size information it gives is different from that shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and gparted.
Metric versus imperial?
Decimal vs. binary (according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte :)).
df and gparted use size units to the power of 1024 bytes (G or GiB) whereas gnome-disks uses 1000 bytes (GB). Try 'df -BGB'.
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 15:48 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 19 December 2014 at 15:42, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
the partition size information it gives is different from that shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and gparted.
Metric versus imperial?
Decimal vs. binary (according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte :)).
df and gparted use size units to the power of 1024 bytes (G or GiB) whereas gnome-disks uses 1000 bytes (GB). Try 'df -BGB'.
Good point, thanks.
poc
On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 00:12 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
the partition size information it gives is different from that shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and gparted.
Metric versus imperial?
Yes, Imperial gigbytes are of course multiples of megafirkins or kilohogsheads.
poc
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote:
Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest
The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default :-).
Was this at one time called gnome-system-disks? That's the name in the offending script, with a comment saying palimpsest. This seems to be the problem, I must have added the link at some time in the past on fc19, and skipped 20 for various reasons.
Free fix for the same script on RHEL7 as well. Thanks.
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