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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:45:37 UTC
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Author:     Braulio Rivas <brauliorivas2004@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2025-06-30 08:39:42 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-07-05 13:45:01 +0000
    Status/2025Q2/geomman.adoc: Add report
    
    Reviewed by:    status (Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>)
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/520
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+=== Geomman Development
+
+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/FullDiskAdministrationToolForFreeBSD[Geomman GSoC wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/FullDiskAdministrationToolForFreeBSD[] +
+link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[geomman Gitlab repository] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[] +
+link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog[bsddialog repository] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog[] +
+link:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sade&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports[sade] URL: link:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sade&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports[]
+
+Contact: Braulio Rivas <brauliorivas@FreeBSD.org>
+
+Geomman is a new partition tool based on man:sade[8] that brings more functionality such as moving, copying, and pasting partitions.
+Geomman is part of Google Summer of Code 2025.
+Currently, it is available in a Gitlab repository.
+But at some future time, it is expected to become a tool in the base system.
+
+Geomman is a TUI designed to allow to growing, shrinking, moving, copying, and pasting partitions with filesystems other than UFS.
+For example, users may be able to create an exFAT partition, as well as to resize an ext4 filesystem.
+This would make partition management easier, because there are tools for each individual task (mainly depending on the filesystem), but none that concentrates all cases in a single tool.
+
+For the moment, geomman only allows copying and pasting partitions.
+However, for the next report the tool should be almost finished.
+
+Currently, I am working on a mechanism to move partitions using man:dd[1].
+Other approaches may be possible, so any help is very welcome.
+
+The next steps for geomman are:
+
+* Develop a way of moving partitions.
+* Handle duplicate UUIDs between partitions when using dd.
+* Add options to create, grow, and shrink more filesystem types.
+
+Sponsor: Google Summer of Code