On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 1:59 AM Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:24:47PM +0300, Mike Banon wrote: > > It's sad to see there are no good opensource Linux tools to work with > > a FAT12 filesystem, it's being unfairly ignored. We shouldn't need > > Windows to work with the floppies and floppy images. > > > > Please add FAT12 support to your library > > > > parted is not a filesystem tool, it deal with disk partitioning. > > If you need to work with FAT filesystems most distributions include > dosfstools these days. >
I really need to resize a FAT12 floppy disk partition to expand it, and none of the tools I tried - gparted, KDE partitionmanager, dosfstools, fatresize - do not support this operation. However, if parted got a FAT12 partition resize support, many of the tools based on parted would get this support automatically. I just can't understand, why FAT16 and FAT32 resizing is supported, while a FAT12 isn't, and I have to resort to proprietary Windows-only tools like winimage. Hope you can fix this injustice.
