[parted-devel] Resizing/moving partition with parted-3.0

[Arvin Schnell]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:09:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Arvin Schnell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:00:45PM +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:
> >
> >> At least libstorage, around which SUSE's partitioner is built, depends
> >> on 'parted resize' functionality. Clearly the FS-resizing will need to
> >> be moved to libstorage itself (using external utilities), but still I
> >> think it would benefit if FS-agnostic partition resizing could be done
> >> with parted.
> >
> > libstorage already uses external tools to resize the
> > filesystem. parted in openSUSE has a patch to allow disabling its
> > own filesystem resize code.
> >
> > One exception here is FAT. At least in dosfstools there is no
> > program for resizing.
> 
> Does libstorage have an independent HFS resizer?

No, it does not allow to resize HFS.

Regards,
  Arvin

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