[parted-devel] Feature request: Partition moving

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Thu Apr 20 06:09:11 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:20 -0400, Gary Greene wrote:
> The problem with this is that some filesystems are VERY particular about this. 
> Some like NTFS actually keep the partition statistical information like the 
> start and end sector information in the filesystem superblock. This means 
> that it REALLY isn't as simple as you would think.

That's pure evil. I would hope that reiserfs, ext2/ext3, RAID and LVM
PVs don't have this problem. Those are what I want to move...




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