Hi Sven, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Doens't change a thing as regard to parted though, as it was frozen in > > > august. > > > > Ah. I guess it's part of d-i? I'm not familiar with d-i organization. > > It is producing a .udeb, yes, and furthermore, it is part of base or standard.
Ah, I darkly remember Joeyh being mad at you for a late parted upload. :-/ > > Well, originally, the bug referred to the package description(s) for the > > most part, so it was Debian specific... And I still don't know who's K.G. > > :-) AFAICS Andrew Clausen is upstream, though seeking for a new > > maintainer. > > K.G is the upstream author of the hfs resizing patch. Is this kind of a game? :-) But I got it, thanks. > Andrew Clausen is searching an upstream replacement, and as far as i > know, only myself proposed, but i am not sure i am the right person, > since i don't know how much time i will be able to dvote to it. Oh, really! I'd think twice about that. :-) > > > Well, parted is frozen since forever, and the version in rc3 is the last > > > one. > > > > Hmm. A documentation-only upload should be possible, right? > > Yep. But we will see. I will look at this this WE, and thanks for the patch. Please think about contacting debian-boot and/or -release _before_ doing so. No need to stir up the same mess again. :-) I've prepared a second, cumulative patch, it's attached. It removes the wrong claim that hfs volumes can be moved, updates a link to libreiserfs, and introduces a short separate section about parted's hfs support, derived from the docs included with Guillaume's patch. Regards, Nikolaus
diff -Naur parted-1.6.21/doc/parted.texi parted-1.6.21.patched/doc/parted.texi --- parted-1.6.21.orig/doc/parted.texi 2005-05-05 01:34:19.152157000 +0200 +++ parted-1.6.21/doc/parted.texi 2005-05-05 11:19:09.765094184 +0200 @@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ @item ext2 @item fat32 @item fat16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] HFS [EMAIL PROTECTED] hfs +(both hfs and hfs+) @item linux-swap @item NTFS @item reiserfs @@ -834,8 +835,6 @@ (provided the destination partition is larger than the source partition) @item fat32 @item fat16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hfs -(both HFS and HFS+) @item linux-swap @item reiserfs (if libreiserfs is installed) @end itemize @@ -2102,6 +2101,7 @@ * Supported File Systems:: File systems operations supported by GNU Parted * Ext2:: Linux's ext2 file system under Parted * FAT16 and FAT32:: Microsoft FAT file systems and Parted +* HFS and HFS+:: MacOS HFS(+) file system and Parted * Reiserfs:: H. Reiser's Journalling file system and Parted @end menu @@ -2159,8 +2159,8 @@ Summary: you can always shrink your partition. If you can't use FAT32 for some reason, you may not be able to grow your partition. -(5) Parted can only shrink hfs and hfs+ file systems. - +(5) Parted can only shrink hfs and hfs+ file systems. Journaled hfs+ is not +yet supported. (6) Reiserfs support is enabled if you install libreiserfs, which is available at @uref{http://www.namesys.com/pub/libreiserfs}. @@ -2303,6 +2303,19 @@ drive back to the compressed drive. @end enumerate [EMAIL PROTECTED] HFS and HFS+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacOS HFS and HFS+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] hfs(+) support [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacOS hfs(+) filesystem support + [EMAIL PROTECTED]:} At least in the fall 2004, both HFS and HFS+ implementations +of Linux 2.4 were buggy. Parted tries to workaround some of these bugs, but +things can still break. Try Linux 2.6 if you want to play with HFS(+) resizing +(though some bugs might also be there in 2.6, there is of course no warranty). + +Copying, moving and checking HFS(+) partitions is not supported. Parted can +shrink an HFS(+) volume, but cannot grow it, and the partition start must remain +fixed. Resizing journaled hfs+ and hfsx is not yet supported. @node Reiserfs @section Reiserfs Journalling File System @@ -2312,7 +2325,7 @@ this at runtime, and automatically enables support. You can download libreiserfs from: - @uref{http://reiserfs.linux.kiev.ua} + @uref{http://www.namesys.com/pub/libreiserfs} Note that libreiserfs is new software, and hasn't been tested widely yet.