Re: Ok, it could be a bug....!

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:04:28AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Well, I must admit I do find that to be a rather surprising fact! One
> would presume that support for little-endian partitioning of Solaris
> (X86) would be an easier sell to developers rather than big-endian
> (SPARC) support.

Red Hat contributed it.  They were supporting Linux-on-Sparc back then, IIRC.
No-one ever complained about lack of x86 support, so I didn't even
realize it was different until about a month ago, when I did some data
recovery for a friend.

> In either case, it is definately not noted on the website whatsoever
> that either is supported or planned to be supported.

True, the website could be better maintained... would you like to help?

> I also am curious, what (if anything) is requisite to resize the
> partitioning as created by a Novell installation?

I am totally ignorant about Novell.  Have you got a Novell installation?
Does Parted recognize a partition table on it?  What file system does it
use?

Cheers,
Andrew