[parted-devel] Feature requests

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:50:07AM -0700, Justin Gombos wrote:

> I'd like to suggest some features for GNU Parted. I noticed that there
> are situations where a user is relatively blind when working with
> parted as to possible ranges of values for partition boundaries. For
> example, a user has a 500MB partition, and without knowing how small
> the partition can be, they specify something like "resize 1 0MB 1MB".
> Naturally parted determines a value that is more realistic than 1MB,
> and takes action without telling the user what it found.
When the calculated value deviates too much (grep FUZZ parted/) from
the user's request, he is told so.
Do you feel that the fuzzy value is too high?
Or should parted probably inform the user in any case?
Or maybe make it adjustable?

> In addition to having a disclosure of what actual boundary parted
> uses, it would also be useful to inhibit parted from acting on the
> information. ie. it tells me it can only shrink the partition to
> 400MB, at which point I decide that's not good enough, and go delete
> more data from the partition. Or I might decide to factor in 25MB of
> slack space, and shrink it to 425MB.
Same thing as above.  When the difference is too much, you will be
asked.

> Ability to have parted shift the data to the front of a partition
> (which is a precursor to shrinking), but without actually taking the
> action to change the partition boundary.
Probably too hard.  We're on the way of outsourcing as much file system
code as possible to external tools for 2.0, so we most likely will not
have the flexibility to do this.
  If you have any suggestions for making this possible nevertheless,
please hand them over.

  Leslie

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