On Thu 31 Jan 2019 at 15:54:57 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > 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 "//".
So going back to the OP, is this a sensible approach to choose instead of letting mount and df figure things out for themselves? Cheers, David.
