On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:02, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:54:40AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:49, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > What I can say. Reiserfs support in parted is good enough for any linux > > > > installer IMHO. > > > > > > > > It is able to do the following: > > > > (1) reiserfs create. > > > > (2) reiserfs destroy :) > > > > (3) reiserfs resize > > > > (4) reiserfs copy > > > > (5) reiserfs move > > > > > > > > Actually it is based on progsreiserfs (libreiserfs) and it is able to do > > > > much more the operations listed above (journal tuning, relocating, etc), > > > > but parted does not have interface for this yet. It considers supported > > > > filesystems as non-journaling ones. > > > > > > Mmm, interesting. As i am currently doing parted upstream work, i may be > > > willing to look into this nextishly. > > > > > > > I guess debian folks probably do not want to use libparted (and reiserfs > > > > with it) because it is needed to rewrite some parts of installer. Or > > > > reiserfs is not good enough for debian installer. > > > > > > Parted will be needed anyway on some of the debian supported > > > architectures, i plan to use it on powerpc for the pegasos boxes, and > > > probably the apus guys will want to use it already. > > > > > > > > I think there is already a graphical libparted installer which has > > > integration problems, > > what kind of problems? > > I don't really know, callback problems from what i hear, and that a > graphical parted does not integrate well with the debconf way of doing > things. Ah, I see. But I guess, it is not big deal. Parted it flexible enough. > > > > but there should be no problem at least to use > > > parted standalone in place of cfdisk. > > > > > But then, parted is less user > > > friendly than cfdisk. > > This is disputable question actually :) Some people like prated much > > more then cfdisk. > > Well, sure, but as it will be used for the end user, a cfdisk like > thingy would be better suited. okay, probably cfdisk's interface is liked more by end users. But this mean, that somebody should improve parted interface (ncurses, etc) :)
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