Phillip Susi wrote: > On 12/19/2011 7:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> FYI, I've begun the process of restoring the FAT and HFS >> file system resizing capability to the parted package. >> Those capabilities will reappear, but not in libparted proper. >> They will be provided by a separate library that will be >> useful only in conjunction with libparted. >> >> I expect to use most of what was in libparted/fs/hfs/ and >> libparted/fs/fat/, along with a few functions from libparted/filesys.c. > > Does this mean that parted will be able to resize ext4 as well, by > invoking resize2fs? In other words, parted can manipulate > filesystems, we just don't want the crufty fs code in libparted?
Sorry, but no. I expect to provide the absolute minimum library interface required to resize only FAT and HFS file systems.