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

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:17:04PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> 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?

Huh, never even noticed. ... goes reading d-d-a, ... well, ok yes it is
frozen.

Doens't change a thing as regard to parted though, as it was frozen in august.

> 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...

Remember me, you provided a patch for this ? 

> > > > possibly, if not i will backport the fix.
> 
> Do you plan to do so? That would be really nice. 

Don't know, i didn't really had plans to do a new parted upload, but was
intenting to upload a experimental version with HFS+ journaling resize
support. Worked fine when i did so on sunday.

i am too busted right now by 11 + 7 hours of jet-lag to really follow up on
this, ping me again this WE if i have not acted about this by then.

> > > 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.

Sorry, i was over-busy and travelling around this paste 2-3 weeks, and broke
my ibook while at it, so i was dead for maintainership things.

> > > 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* 

Please provide a patch. Or better speak with K.G. and make one happen upstream
that i can backport.

> Better make things not perfect than not doing things at all. 

Well, parted is frozen since forever, and the version in rc3 is the last one.
I am not good at documentation stuff though, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther