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

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Thu Jun 9 21:09:01 UTC 2011


Arvin Schnell wrote:

> 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.

Does libstorage have an independent HFS resizer?

>> 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.

Good.



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