Re: Win Libparted

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:16:03PM +0300, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 21:04, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm not aware of any Free partition programs available for Windows.
> > > 
> > > Free in what sense? :) There are a lot free (as free beer) but none with
> > > source AFAIK -- although I've never checked :)
> > 
> > Free as in freedom; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > 
> > There also exists a libntfs (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/),
> > adding ntfs support shouldn't be very difficult I think.
> Probably it should be so difficult to write an interface in parted to
> libntfs. But I guess, that it does not do all that things parted
> requires from. I mean resize, copy, etc.

Notice that nothing forces you to implement all the libparted
functionalities. You could start by implementing probe first, create
second, and then go ahead and implement the other functions.

Friendly,

Sven Luther