Package: libparted1.6-dev Severity: wishlist On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:08 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Package: debian-installer-manual > > Section 3.5.1.1 recommends fips+defrag however this is usually not > necessary. Partman can change the size of FAT partitions and keep the > data in them. It is not necessary for the resized partitions to be > defrag-ed. The only thing the user has to do is the change the size of > the partition in the "Partition settings:" dialog. > > The present implementation of the resizing in partman doesn't allow the > start of the partition to be moved (only the end of the partition). If > fips allows this then there are occasions when fips is necessary (I have > never used fips).
A brief initial look at libparted and libntfs sources tells me that it is very probably possible to implement NTFS resizing in libparted using the same NTFS code used by qt-parted. Has anyone begun doing that? -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
