On Monday 22 January 2007 23:14, David Cantrell wrote: > Apologies for it taking so long. The GNU parted team has shifted > around a bit in the past year or so.
That happens :-( > When resizing a Vista NTFS partition, be sure to start at sector 2048. > In the parted(8) interactive program, this can be done by specifying > 1049kB as the starting location. Sure, but as I explained, we do not use parted, but our own program partman, which only makes use of _lib_parted. What we actually do in parted_server is to call the libparted function ped_disk_set_partition_geom with: - disk: correct PedDisk - part: correct PedPartition - constraint: ped_file_system_get_resize_constraint(fs) - start: 2048 - end: 29298922 (for example) > Now, I have made a patch for parted-1.8.2 that will preserve the > starting sector of 2048 on Vista partitions when you are creating the > DOS disklabel. That should be added to the parted package in Debian > for this to work. Do you mean the patch "parted-print-name.dpatch" that Otavio already applied in Debian's parted last week? I tested with that patch, but that actually caused a serious regression. It no longer changes the starting sector to 63, but also does not fix the problem (i.e. leaving the starting sector at 2048); instead the starting sector is now being changed to 16065, which I suspect is the end of the first cylinder or the start of the second! See [1]. This probably is worse than the old behavior and I've therefore suggested to Otavio to revert that patch. From my reading of the relevant code (libparted/labels/dos.c) in libparted [2], I think that your change is in the right area, but that the current fix is doing something wrong. Cheers, FJP [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380226;msg=210 [2] I'm not a C programmer, but I've seen enough languages to be able to make some sense of most.
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