What is the name of the disk partitioner used during installation?
I want to use the same one to partition disks, etc. I saw a demonstration where someone was using it to partition additional drives, LV's, etc. They were running it from the command line. I would like to use it instead of fdisk.
Would someone please provide the name of the executable?
I believe, the package responsible for doing installation and hence the partitioning stuff is ubiquity.
It's dependency includes libparted0debian1 package which provides the main library doing the partitioning stuff. ( you can see this with apt-cache depends ubiquity command ). But the main executable program used to do partitioning is partman and partman_server which are programs included in ubiquity. Also the installation log file /var/log/installer/partman indicating this.
I removed parted from Live session and installed Ubuntu without it successfully. Though I have to remove also usb-creator-gtk package.
partman program is not intended for normal use. See the Warning! section in the package description in debian site. This program is not packaged as a standalone but included in ubiquity package instead in Ubuntu.
There are many front-end programs available for normal use. A good GUI alternative is gparted. gparted
I found that partman is a seperate package in debian, but it is not in Ubuntu. The program is included in ubiquity package.
