[parted-devel] Move Vista partition

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:28 +0100, May Doušak wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I have 120gigs HDD with vista NTFS partition that starts at 40gigs.
>> I'd like to "move" that partition to beginning of hard drive and
>> expand it all over disk. Expanding ("to right") works in Vista, so the
>> only thing I need is moving it "to the left".
>> I've tried but the partition isn't even recognised correctly in parted
>> (neither partition magic).
>> 
>> Are there any plans of supporting vista's ntfs in parted? Is there a
>> timing? Maybe a devel version that already does it?
>> 
>> Thanks in  advance,
>
> Vista NTFS is the newest version and we [the Linux community] know even
> less about it than previous releases of NTFS.  We just recently fixed a
> problem with libparted destroying Vista NTFS partitions that start at
> the beginning of the drive.  That fix is in Fedora (will be in Fedora 7)
> and to my knowledge is included in Debian testing or unstable right now
> (Otavio?).

I wasn't yet pushed there. Frans reported a regression with the code
and I hadn't time to work on it since then :(

> For us to offer any support for non-Linux filesystems at the
> create/destroy/move level, we first need to revamp our underlying
> filesystem code.  We have this in the plan for parted 2.x.

Indeed.

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