Re: Ext3 support

[Yury Umanets]

Nuno Gomes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my first post in this ML.
> I am making my own linux distribution (Home made, not comercial) and
> because i think libparted is a great tool i decide to do the instalation
> partition´s stuff with it. I found myself with the problem that
> libparted doesn´t create ext3 partition yet. I know that there are some
> distributions that use the libparted in the instalation like Redhat, and
> they support ext3, so my question is how they do that? Is it just a
> system() call or or there are some API (parted) function´s to call
> extern programs? 
As I know they use external mkfs-tools for creating filesystems.

> Can you help me put my distribution creating ext3 using libparted? :) 
> By the way, when will you think that libparted will support this
> feature?
Probably you should add ext3 creating feature by youself :) And then you 
will be able to use it from libparted and of course a lot of people will 
do and will thank you a lot :)

> Thank´s,
>
> Nuno Gomes   
>
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