[parted-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Lift 512 byte restriction on fat resize
Phillip Susi
psusi at ubuntu.com
Mon May 7 18:55:52 BST 2018
As Colin Watson pointed out way back in 2014, when I removed the
512 byte sector size restriction from the fs recognition code,
I missed the same from the fat resize code.
---
NEWS | 2 ++
libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c | 12 ------------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5bc3051..a2e077a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New Features
+ libparted-fs-resize: Work on non 512 byte sectors.
+
Add resizepart command to resize a partition. This works even on
mounted partitions.
diff --git a/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c b/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
index 99d788d..3e34e13 100644
--- a/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
+++ b/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
@@ -125,18 +125,6 @@ fat_boot_sector_analyse (FatBootSector* bs, PedFileSystem* fs)
PED_ASSERT (bs != NULL);
- if (PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->sector_size) != 512) {
- if (ped_exception_throw (
- PED_EXCEPTION_BUG,
- PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE_CANCEL,
- _("This file system has a logical sector size of %d. "
- "GNU Parted is known not to work properly with sector "
- "sizes other than 512 bytes."),
- (int) PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->sector_size))
- != PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE)
- return 0;
- }
-
fs_info->logical_sector_size = PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->sector_size) / 512;
fs_info->sectors_per_track = PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->secs_track);
--
2.7.4
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