FreeBSD does not currently provide an interactive partition management tool comparable to GParted's ease of use and practicality. This talk presents geomman, a new TUI-based tool built on top of sade, developed during Google Summer of Code 2025. The talk will cover filesystem operations, GEOM integration, and the current state of the project as a FreeBSD port, demonstrating how it simplifies common partitioning tasks.
The talk will cover:
How disk and filesystem management is typically done in FreeBSD today, and which tasks are straightforward versus those that require multiple tools or steps.
Why extending sade turned out to be a better fit for FreeBSD than porting GParted. New features added by geomman, including copy, move, and resizing, and support for additional filesystems.
A walkthrough of a real-life example using geomman.
A comparison showing how geomman streamlines tasks that normally require many manual commands, demonstrating how it makes FreeBSD partition management easier.
How the GEOM framework can be used for more than partitioning, with examples of labeling and encryption using glabel and geli.
Where geomman is heading next, including broader GEOM support and practical ZFS management.
By the end of this talk, attendees will know how geomman can help FreeBSD users save time by hiding the underlying GPart and GEOM complexity.