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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:45:07 UTC
The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=10e879520eabb4682d35b5d2685ca16d60ada295 commit 10e879520eabb4682d35b5d2685ca16d60ada295 Author: Braulio Rivas <brauliorivas@protonmail.com> AuthorDate: 2025-09-23 22:21:49 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-10-10 13:11:50 +0000 Status/2025Q3/geomman.adoc: Add report Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/551 --- .../en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/geomman.adoc | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/geomman.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/geomman.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1de215a69 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/geomman.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +=== Geomman Release + +Links: + +link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[geomman gitlab repo] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/brauliorivas/geomman[] + +link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/geomman[geomman port] URL: link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/geomman[] + +Contact: Braulio Rivas <brauliorivas@FreeBSD.org> + +Geomman is a partitioning tool (TUI) based on man:sade[8] that brings more functionality such as copying, pasting partitions, creating ext filesystems or encrypting partitions using man:geli[8]. + +Geomman is relevant for both newcomers and experienced users bcause it is a complete and unified management of partitions and disks. + +Features added to geomman since last report are: + +* Grow UFS, NTFS, ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems. +* Shrink NTFS, ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems. +* New partition dialog, where users can visually select a free space to place the partition to be pasted or moved, added to link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog[bsddialog]. +* Create exFAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems. +* Check all the mentioned filesystems. + +Then, two GEOM-related features were added too: + +* Label man:glabel[8] new partitions. +* Encrypt man:geli[8] new partitions by adding an optional "keyfile", plus a "passphrase" (or passfile). + +Finally, with the help of mailto:fuz@FreeBSD.org[Robert Clausecker], we published the link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/geomman[geomman port] to let people try it out. + +Future work includes: + +* Add geomman to FreeBSD natively (userland) +* Add ZFS management + +Sponsor: Google Summer of Code 2025