[parted-devel] Resizing/moving partition with parted-3.0

[Arvin Schnell]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:00:45PM +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:

> At least libstorage, around which SUSE's partitioner is built, depends
> on 'parted resize' functionality. Clearly the FS-resizing will need to
> be moved to libstorage itself (using external utilities), but still I
> think it would benefit if FS-agnostic partition resizing could be done
> with parted.

libstorage already uses external tools to resize the
filesystem. parted in openSUSE has a patch to allow disabling its
own filesystem resize code.

One exception here is FAT. At least in dosfstools there is no
program for resizing.

> Honestly I don't know if libstorage also uses 'parted move' nor I'm
> aware of any other tool which needs it.

No, libstorage does not use the move command.

Regards,
  Arvin

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