Re: legacy ticket: bad blocks.

[Jim Meyering]

rod wrote:
> Thanks for that information.
>
> Please excuse me for asking one or two more questions.
>
> What's the thinking behind phasing out filesystem-dependent operations?
>  Perhaps the functionality is being moved to individual libraries supported
> elsewhere?  Will the ability to move and resize file systems be phased out
> of libparted as well as out of  parted? (I guessed this might also be the
> forum for libparted, but may be wrong.)

It's been discussed at length on this list and/or on parted-devel.
Here's an example, with explanation that updates README:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2994

> I use gparted for resizing partitions; that calls libparted directly, and
> makes some use of other tools.

If you stick to using gparted, I am confident that
you will see no change in available functionality.

> Is there a roadmap/plan of how and when resizing & moving will migrate from
> libparted, and what set of routines will replace them?

There is a plan, as you'll see outlined in related discussions
on the mailing list, but there are no dates.