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

[Nikolaus Schulz]

Hi Sven,

now Sarge's frozen (whoohoo!) and it's time to fix remaining issues with
packages in Sarge. What about picking up this item, too?

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:22:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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?  

This hasn't happened...

> > > possibly, if not i will backport the fix.

Do you plan to do so? That would be really nice. 

> > That's good. Thanks. It would be pretty awkward if this wasn't fixed in
> > Sarge. 

[...]

> > > 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. 

Erm, I guess that isn't true. Sorry for that.

> > Please consider to fix this soon.
> 
> Currently working on 2.6.11 powerpc kernels though, so ...

If you still feel burdened with higher-priority tasks, please say so and
I will try to make a patch happen, somehow. *sigh* 
Better make things not perfect than not doing things at all. 

Regards,
Nikolaus