Device management --where?

[Qqmike]

Re: Device management --where?

@dibl, I booted into 8.10 to try View > Reload (using kdesudo and otherwise) -- didn't work. I made several attempts, both repeating and closing out and starting fresh, etc. -- Nothing.

[flarson]

Re: Device management --where?

"aptitude search part" shows a number of interesting options including
partitionmanager - partition manager for KDE
qtparted - A parted frontend using Qt

You should probably look at both of them.

Also K-> Applications->System->Hardware Viewing gives a comprehensive tree of devices that includes disk controllers, disks and partitions, right down to HAL and dbus info.

Also
"kcmshell4 kcm_partition" gives another presentation of the same data.

You might find something in there that is satisfactory.

[kyonides]

Re: Device management --where?

Did you notice that in some cases Intrepid (maybe Jaunty too) lacks apps like KInfoCenter that could be found in Hardy? For some weird reason it disappeared in Intrepid and I had to install it manually but at least now it shows me all the partitions (swaps included), their total, free and used space.

[dibl]

Re: Device management --where?

Mostly I use Dolphin -- the left panel shows the devices, with their labels if you happened to have labeled them. But it's not the nice graphic that you get with Ubuntu's little gnome-monitor utility -- I've always wished you could something that looks like that in Kubuntu. There are some other disk-viewing packages, like filelight, but they're not as intuitive to my eye. The Kinfocenter partitions view is as close as we get, I'm afraid.