FAT and HFS/HFS+ file system resizing restored in parted-3.1

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 3, 2012, at 1:27 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> FYI, I released parted-3.1 yesterday,
> 
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10790
> 
> In addition to pretty many bug fixes,
> 
>    This is to announce parted-3.1, a bug fix release that also reintroduces
>    a minimal subset of the file system resizing capability that was removed
>    in 3.0.  It adds a new, separate library, libparted-fs-resize, that
>    provides for resizing of FAT and HFS/HFS+ file systems.

FYI, there is a possible problem resizing certain JHFS+/JHFSX volumes. Currently the code fails if the jhdr_header size is something other than sector size. When volume size is > 1TiB, depending on the version of Apple's Disk Utility used, the jhdr_header size won't be 512 bytes, is instead 4096 bytes. Details here:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/filesystem-dev/2012/Feb/msg00001.html


Chris Murphy