Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:05:15PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
> >
> > 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.
But only because nobody got ahead and implemented it. Ideally both the ext2/3
and ntfs support should be modified in libparted to use the corresponding
libraries.
> 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?
Nope, since those .deb are only installed once you have finished partitioning.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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