On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:27 PM Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike Banon writes: > > > 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. > > It isn't supported. Parted removed all support for filesystem > manipulation years ago. People complained about the removal of the fat > resize code because no other tools anywhere else had such support, so > the code was replaced as a searpate, unsupported library. >
Then how the tools like GParted (which are basically a GUI for a parted library) are resizing FAT16 / FAT32 fine? Are they using the outdated parted library where the filesystem manipulation has been possible? I just think, since there are no fundamental differences between FAT12 and FAT16 / FAT32, it doesn't make sense not to support the former.
