Re: Win Libparted

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:47:06PM +0300, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:33, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 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
> Probe is implemented I guess. Create is not difficult, there is needed
> functionality in libntfs. But the rest... I'm not sure about. It will
> require lots of research I guess :)

But it can be done in the frame of libntfs, can't it ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther