On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:54:17 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 01:09, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Section _Lossless Repartitioning_ should talk about parted and
> > ntfsresize, as well.
> > As it is now, it seems to be a bit misleading: it makes the reader
> > think that the only way to losslessly repartition a hard disk with
> > VFAT filesystems is the good old fips...
>
> Well, the section is about tools that can be run *in a DOS/Windows
> environment*.
> Does that apply to parted and ntfsresize? AFAIK it does not...
Fair enough...
It seems that I misinterpreted "From DOS or Windows" as if it meant
"when you start from a system with DOS or Windows installed"... I now
realize that that is not the whole meaning, since it also means "and you
want to repartition under DOS or Windows"!
I apologize for the misunderstanding.
>
> Note that [1] also has the following text:
> If your machine has a FAT or NTFS filesystem, as used by DOS and
> Windows, you can wait and use Debian installer's partitioning program
> to resize the filesystem.
Sure.
>
> The installer of course uses parted and ntfsresize.
Yes, I suspected that, but it's not clearly stated in the manual.
Maybe saying it explicitly may be useful, since a reader who's
generally knowledgeable about free software and GNU/Linux, but not
specifically about Debian, could be used to parted and ntfsresize, but
he/she may not know that debian-installer provides exactly the same
functionality as such tools (being based on them)...
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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