[parted-devel] Introduction of a new parted-devel list member

[Harley D. Eades III]

Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> writes:

> Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> 
> > Hello, Welcome to the list.  :)
> 
> Thanks. :)
> 
> >>Initially driven by a wish to increase parted's ability to manipulate
> >>ext2/ext3 filesystems, I've exchanged a couple of e-mails with Leslie,
> >>and I am now joining this list in hopes of contributing to parted
> >>development.
> > Wonderful. :)  Are we currently using libext2fs?  If no, wouldn't it
> > save a lot of coding by using it?
> 
> IIUC, currently we're using native code. We could consider either
> linking to libext2fs or calling resize2fs, whichever makes more sense.
Well resizing is not the only operation we need, we need to read and
create ext2/3fs.  I would think libext2fs would make more sense.

Cheers
Harley