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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by fritz.mueller Homepage, Munich, Germany, 15.01.2023, 16:49

> A few hints Fritz: If you want to delete a partition press DELETE. You may
> set the partition type to "unused" via INSERT but that does not alter the
> size of the partition nor deletes it.
Thanks for this explanation. Would it be possible to add a "d) delete" text to make this easier to see as it is not self explaining. Thx.

One more thing that I just noticed:
I changed the extended partition (number 4 of first GUI) where 4 logical volumes were inside to FAT32-LBA and saved it. There was NO warning that these volumes will go to hell which is very dangerous.
When I go to this new FAT32-LBA and press ENTER I also get an interrupt divide by zero (machine was booted before).


>
> The erase function does not erase the partition itself but fills it with
> zero. That is primarly usefull if you want to erase all data in that
> partition. Therefore the menu entry is called "Erase partition DATA".
> Perhaps it should be named differently to avoid confusion.
Yes, I have seen that everything including FATs was deleted. This is a good
feature (of course also dangerous).
But sometimes you want to delete everything (making the HD a "virgin", means: even MBR should disappear). Is there a way to do this with ranish? Something like shred /dev/sda in Linux.
>
> The crash in the picture results in trying to display FAT file system
> information on a partition previously filled with zeros. That is a software
> bug. I will implement some checks to make sure that screen is only
> accessible on a formatted FAT partition.
>
> If there is interest I can try to make a screencast or something in a
> tutorial style howto create complex partition layouts.
This should be done under all circumstances when the final version is out, yes.

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