Bug#265029: NTFS support in libparted?
Package: libparted1.6-dev
Severity: wishlist
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:08 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Package: debian-installer-manual
>
> Section 3.5.1.1 recommends fips+defrag however this is usually not
> necessary. Partman can change the size of FAT partitions and keep the
> data in them. It is not necessary for the resized partitions to be
> defrag-ed. The only thing the user has to do is the change the size of
> the partition in the "Partition settings:" dialog.
>
> The present implementation of the resizing in partman doesn't allow the
> start of the partition to be moved (only the end of the partition). If
> fips allows this then there are occasions when fips is necessary (I have
> never used fips).
A brief initial look at libparted and libntfs sources tells me that it
is very probably possible to implement NTFS resizing in libparted using
the same NTFS code used by qt-parted. Has anyone begun doing that?
--
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>
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