Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-17 Thread Anton Zinoviev 
On 16.I.2004 at 22:22 Bastian Blank wrote:
 
 There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to
 use the right name or specify -j.

We prefer the functions in libparted to mkfs.* because using libparted
it is possible to show the user progress bar.  However libparted
doesn't support ext3 hence the solution is to format the file system
as ext2 and convert latter to ext3 using tune2fs.

Anton Zinoviev


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Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-17 Thread Sven Luther 
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 Hi Anton, thanks so much for partman. I am looking forward to trying it
 out. What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon?
 
 I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so
 lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make
 an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it?
 This seems like a simple workaround..

This seem hacky.

If someone helps me out with the subarch stuff, i will fix libparted to
use libext2 or whatever it is called next week, and we will thus
hopefully gain full ext3 support.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-17 Thread Sven Luther 
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
 On 16.I.2004 at 22:22 Bastian Blank wrote:
  
  There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to
  use the right name or specify -j.
 
 We prefer the functions in libparted to mkfs.* because using libparted
 it is possible to show the user progress bar.  However libparted
 doesn't support ext3

(yet) I will look into ext3 support next week, if we can fix the subarch
thingy before then.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-16 Thread Anton Zinoviev 
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon?

I'd like to do some last changes before the upload.  I am going to
upload the packages on 20 January.

 I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so
 lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make
 an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it?
 This seems like a simple workaround..

I didn't implement it that way because tune2fs is not included in any
udeb (I think).

Currently even for ext2 partman doesn't use parted (the code to use
parted exists but is commented).  This is because after too many
repartitionings of my hard disk ;-) somethign happened and now parted
is not able any more to format even swap space.  One of the things I
want to change before the upload is to use parted and show progress
bars whenever possible and mkfs.* as fallback when parted fails to
format some partition.

Anton Zinoviev


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Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-16 Thread Bastian Blank 
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
Weird things about ext3.

There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to
use the right name or specify -j.

Bastian

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