[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: new e2fstools and parted not playing nice?
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: new e2fstools and parted not playing nice? |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:20:01 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i |
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:22:19AM -0600, Unit3 wrote:
> I'm working on packaging gparted for Gentoo, and we've run into an issue
> where ext2/3 partitions show up as being unmoveable/resizeable
> (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61828#c14). One of the other
> developers thinks this is due to the newest version of the e2fstools not
> playing nice with parted-1.6.15. I'm just checking to verify that this
> is actually the problem, and if so, to see if you guys have any fixes
> planned in the near future. :)
Yes, libparted's ext2 code requires the file system to have a particular
layout. Modern e2fsprogs don't satisfy this.
I haven't had time to fix it. I'm accepting patches :)
Cheers,
Andrew