Re: Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:25:28PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:23, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Yes, of course, but that (at least to me) is very low priority so don't
> expect it anytime soon... Sorry...
Well, first, i have no intention to do so myself too, but it would be
nice if you could give us an estimation of the work needed to move the
resize code to libntfs ? I think some libparted guys where also
interested by this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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