On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, David Balazic wrote:
From: Szakacsits Szabolcs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Balazic wrote:
When will parted support moving ntfs partitions?
Moving shouldn't change the content anyway, so it should
be simply. Or am I missing something ?
If the partition is a boot/system partition then
- the "hidden sectors" field in the BPB must be adjusted accordingly
- if the place of the new partition changes in the partition
table then
additional modifications are needed e.g. to boot.ini, etc
Yes, but this is true for FAT too, isn't it ?
Yes and I suspect some of the FAT related problems are due to these. These
issues happened less often when disks were smaller and they manifest more
often as they grow.
FAT has also lower size limits which may prevent seeing this problem more
often.
Another issue is that while FAT is very simple, only about 2-3,000 lines of
code, NTFS is over 250,000 (and though all required code exists and it's
stable but the task overall is relatively too laborious and far not the
most requested).
Szaka
- files and the related NTFS metadata used during boot must be in the
actually set BIOS addressable range
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