Re: Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:14, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.
I am afraid I have no idea as I haven't really looked at the ntfsresize
code. I am CC:-ing Szaka who wrote and maintains ntfsresize in the hope
that he will comments.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
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