Lasse Kärkkäinen wrote: > This is apparently a rather common problem, as I keep receiving > messages about this every few weeks. Here's the latest: > > Michael Monnerie wrote: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-parted@gnu.org/msg02631.html >> >> Did you ever resolve this? How? > > I solved the problem for writing my own program for reading and > writing GPT labels. With that it was pretty straight-forward to > repartition, even though one had to edit the source code to do any > changes. > > http://zi.fi/software/gptedit-0.0.1.tar.bz2 > > Run the program to see the current GPT info, then add lines to set new > values at the line marked // TODO: operations here. Run the program > and it will display the old data, then it'll do the changes and > perform some consistency checks to verify them and print the new > data. It will then ask for confirmation before writing anything to > disk. > > Before writing this program I tried inspecting parted source code to > see if it could be fooled into resizing the partition without touching > the XFS or if it could use external xfsgrow tool, but unfortunately > the source code was too abstract and I had to give up. > > Hopefully someone adds this feature, as there clearly is need for it...
Thanks for the message. I agree. This is functionality that parted really should provide. With a little luck, someone here will find the time to make parted do what you want. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
