[parted-devel] FAT12 support?

[Phillip Susi]

Mike Banon writes:

>> manipulation years ago.  People complained about the removal of the fat
>> resize code because no other tools anywhere else had such support, so
>> the code was replaced as a searpate, unsupported library.
>>
>
> Then how the tools like GParted (which are basically a GUI for a
> parted library) are resizing FAT16 / FAT32 fine? Are they using the
> outdated parted library where the filesystem manipulation has been
> possible? I just think, since there are no fundamental differences
> between FAT12 and FAT16 / FAT32, it doesn't make sense not to support
> the former.

Because it is using the unsupported fat resize library I mentioned.