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=== 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 <[email protected]> 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 because 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:[email protected][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