[parted-devel] Feature request: Partition moving

Gary Greene greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Thu Apr 20 06:11:26 UTC 2006


On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:09 am, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 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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Not sure. I've studied NTFS and XFS more so....

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