Re: partman (and ext3)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hi Anton, thanks so much for partman. I am looking forward to trying it
> out. What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon?
>
> I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so
> lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make
> an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it?
> This seems like a simple workaround..
This seem hacky.
If someone helps me out with the subarch stuff, i will fix libparted to
use libext2 or whatever it is called next week, and we will thus
hopefully gain full ext3 support.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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