Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > Though I not a C programmer, their organization leads to answers for my > questions [even a few I hadn't asked].
It's C++ in this case. (bleh ...) But what i meant is that Gparted runs external programs, which a simple shell script could do too. https://github.com/GNOME/gparted/blob/master/src/ext2.cc#L147 uses dumpe2fs -h ...partition.path... and if the partition is not mounted resize2fs -P ...partition.path... https://github.com/GNOME/gparted/blob/master/src/fat16.cc#L129 uses fsck.fat -n -v ...partition.path... or if that is not present dosfsck -n -v ...partition.path... The Gparted C++ code then looks for particular text snippets in the output of the programs in order to read the numbers which follow. One may suck more hints from the programmers' comments in the lines which begin by "//". Have a nice day :) Thomas
