Re: Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:15:35PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:27:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > > NTFS write support at the kernel level is not very well-tested, but
> > > > > > > resizing partitions with the userspace tools is something that gets used
> > > > > > > fairly frequently.
> > > 
> > > > > > So, there is NTFS resizing user space tool ? Anything that is packaged
> > > > > > in debian and we can use in d-i ?
> > > 
> > > > > Yes, it's the tool named "ntfsresize" that the original poster was
> > > > > referring to, and it's found in the ntfstools package.
> > > 
> > > > But is not in any way related to the libntfs library ?
> > > 
> > > Package: ntfstools
> > > Source: linux-ntfs
> > > Version: 1.8.0-2
> > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libntfs5 (>= 1.8.0)
> > > 
> > > I haven't looked at the source to know which pieces are exposed through
> > > the library or not.
> > 
> > I say this, because on the parted mailing list, less than a week ago, it
> > was claimed that libntfs didn't support resizing.
> > 
> > Still, i wonder what the use of many outside library would mean to
> > libparted and its use in debian-installer, where size matters.
> 
> libntfs doesn't support resizing at present, that is correct.
> 
> However, ntfsresize uses functionality from libntfs and cannot work without it.

Any chance of the resizing fucntionality of ntfsresize making it to
libntfs ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther