[Parted-maintainers] Bug#298020: parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > the info manual has been updated (see Bug #275650), but the package
> > > > > description(s) *ouch!* and README.Debian still say parted does not support
> > > > > HFS(plus) resizing. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > I think the documentation should be fixed in Sarge. Will Sarge release
> > > with parted 1.6.22?  
> > 
> > possibly, if not i will backport the fix.
> 
> That's good. Thanks. It would be pretty awkward if this wasn't fixed in
> Sarge. 
> 
> > > Only debian/{control,README.Debian} are affected, it has nothing to do
> > > with upstream.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > sorry, will apply it, feel free to send me a patch against those, would make
> > things easier for me.
> 
> Hm, I'd prefer not to do this, since I'm not familiar with parted's
> capabilities. 
> E.g. parted cannot resize an hfs partition with active journal
> (#294773). Can it *create* a journalled hfs(+) volume? It seems that
> HFSX isn't supported yet. Not at all, or to which degree...? 
> 
> I see you've filed a RFH for parted, but I think this is a
> five-minutes-job for a maintainer. Please consider to fix this soon.

Currently working on 2.6.11 powerpc kernels though, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther