Re: HFS+ Resize problems

[Stewart Smith]

On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 06:23  AM, K.G. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Many thanks for your report (it's the first one I receive ! :))
> The behaviour you describe is typical when "something" went wrong 
> during
> various checks, for example if there is a file that the file system 
> doesn't
> completly describe, but this kind of simple corruption should be 
> detected by
> Disk First Aid and hpfsck I think, and that's not your case so it's 
> quite interresting.

I don't know if there's a --debug or --verbose option, but maybe it 
could be useful for looking at exactly what happens when it stops?

> I'd not tested resizing HFS+ with OS X on it, and maybe I lack support
> for undocumented features of this filesystem, if there is any.

The only real things I could think of could be bundles or journalling. 
But then again, I turned journalling off, so that shouldn't really be 
an issue.

> What could be quite interresting is an image of a (maybe small) FS that
> parted with my patch fail to resize. I could work on it without any 
> right
> on the raw hard drive device, it's better for your computers because
> debugging this kind of tool is a quite destructive process ! :)

I get that :) I'll try and make up such an image.
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