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

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 14 00:24:53 UTC 2012


I wrote:

> Brian C. Lane wrote:
>> I am going to be leaving parted at 3.0 for F17, I don't want to
>> introduce a large change at this stage.
> 
> This is really unhelpful, it's going to leave frontends with no way to
> readd support for the lost functionality for another release.
> 
> (FYI, I filed an RFE against upstream kde-partitionmanager to get support
> for this in: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295339 . I might try to
> come up with a patch if upstream doesn't react soon.)
> 
> IMHO, we should actually either also upgrade F16 to parted 3.1 or backport
> the new libparted-fs-resize library.

PS: I also don't see how an added library which Anaconda doesn't even use 
could have any potential for breakage.

        Kevin Kofler



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