Re: Possible to do in Parted ???

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:30:14PM +0100, Thomas Fraefel wrote:
> Hello bug-parted,
> 
> I wonder if something like this is possible to do in Parted ?:
> -- cut from news.txt (format 0.91m by Eric Auer (Freedos)) --
>  - added /A flag for cluster alignment (make each FAT 4*n
>                 sectors big / reserved area 8*n sectors big), for WinXP
>                 NTFS conversion (NTFS clusters start at sector 0 and are
>                 preferrably 8 sectors each in WinXP: Win2000, or WinXP-if-
>                 sizes-are-unaligned can only handle 1 sector / cluster!
>                  described on 
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/ntfs-preinstall.mspx

Parted doesn't support this.  It would be a big change to the resize
algorithm to support this.

You want to write a FAT -> NTFS converter?

Cheers,
Andrew