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Re: [parted-devel] HFS and FAT FS-resizing returning soon (but to a sepa
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [parted-devel] HFS and FAT FS-resizing returning soon (but to a separate library) |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:56:37 +0100 |
Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 7:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, I've begun the process of restoring the FAT and HFS
>> file system resizing capability to the parted package.
>> Those capabilities will reappear, but not in libparted proper.
>> They will be provided by a separate library that will be
>> useful only in conjunction with libparted.
>>
>> I expect to use most of what was in libparted/fs/hfs/ and
>> libparted/fs/fat/, along with a few functions from libparted/filesys.c.
>
> Does this mean that parted will be able to resize ext4 as well, by
> invoking resize2fs? In other words, parted can manipulate
> filesystems, we just don't want the crufty fs code in libparted?
Sorry, but no. I expect to provide the absolute minimum library
interface required to resize only FAT and HFS file systems.
Re: HFS and FAT FS-resizing returning soon (but to a separate library), Curtis Gedak, 2011/12/19
Re: HFS and FAT FS-resizing returning soon (but to a separate library), Chris Murphy, 2011/12/24