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Re: Minor parted patch submission


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: Re: Minor parted patch submission
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:00:36 +1000

Vincent Stehlé wrote:
> 
>  Dear Andrew,
> 
>  I recently used parted and found it very useful.
> 
>  Nevertheless, I found that maybe it might be more convenient to
> allow the user not to specify an "END" parameter to the "move"
> command (when no size change is needed for example, which, in my
> case, happened quite often).
> 
>  Therefore, I submit to you a small patch against parted-1.4.11,
> which transforms this mandatory "END" parameter to an optional
> parameter.

Hmmm, it just occurred to me that:
* the constraint solver may need to change the size of
the partition
* if the size gets smaller, it will break moving of ext2
partitions

So, we should add a constraint to set the minimum size
to the existing size.

I did this.  Any comments?

Andrew Clausen



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