Re: legacy ticket: bad blocks.

[Curtis Gedak]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> rod wrote:
>   
> > 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.
>   

Hi Rod,

Jim is correct.  The GParted project will endeavour to maintain both 
partition editing and file system  resizing support.  Hence you should 
not see a loss in available functionality in GParted.

Jim has offered to keep the FAT16/32 and HFS/+ file system resizing code 
available in the libparted library until there is another free open 
source software tool that is willing to take over this code.  Hence 
projects like GParted, which use the libparted library, will still have 
access to this code.  Of course the file system resizing code may 
require some patches to keep it up to date so please do feel free to 
examine this library and contribute to the Parted project.

As Jim mentioned, this topic has been discussed previously in the parted 
mailing list.  One such thread can be found at the following link:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02728.html

Regards,
Curtis Gedak
(Maintainer of GParted)