Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility
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> No. However I think there are some efforts to add to parted support to
> resize ntfs by external library (as this is done with reiserfs).
It seems quite unlikely that ntfs resizing will get into GNU parted
anytime soon. The GNU parted mailing list shows very little actvity in
this regard over the last year or even years. So "ntfstools" (the command
line programs) and "libntfs5" (the library) seem much more
realistic/quicker routes to get NTFS resizing into d-i.
A few interesting points I thought I'd share after some investigation:
I also see that d-i includes many .deb files that are not in .udeb format.
In the interests of expediating a "killer feature" (IMHO) into Debian
Sarge, is it feasible the just include a "non-udeb" ntfstools package in
d-i, and make simple system calls to ntfsresize from partman?
I've inspected the changelogs for ntfsresize (to see if anything important
has changed since 1.9.0 (version in sarge, sid) and 1.9.2 (latest
version), and there is one possibly important, functional improvement,
introduced in 1.9.1: "NTFS without a volume label can be resized now
also". Ummm, I guess that sounds important.
Perhaps I should submit this as a wishlist bug against partman...
Dustin Harriman
Root Shell Computer Support
http://rootshell.ca
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