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- Create the ultimate partition/disk manager including:
- a Partition Magic(R) like GUI, with console and X11 support (QT/GTK), using qtparted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/) and/or PartGUI (http://part-gui.sourceforge.net/),
- an "hdparm wizard" GUI for easy disk performance tuning, using DriveTweak (http://drivetweak.sourceforge.net/)
- A partition ghoster, using PartImage (http://www.partimage.org/)
- "normal <-> expert mode" button => "advanced" button like other tools
- make selected partition visible (which one is the currently selected partition?) => use ToggleButton
- handle new winxp partition scheme (Logical Disk Manager / DynamicDisks)
- support for striped LVM volumes/ snapshots ? (asking for the first since mdk8.0 pre)
- LVM2 support
- EVMS support ?
- Use a better set of mount options for VFAT partitions:
Bug #3779
- Show labels that identify physical drives when partitioning during install: Bug #3219
