Phillip Susi wrote: > It has come to my attention that gparted can correctly move ext3/4 > partitions while parted can not. It seems that gparted has its own move > implementation instead of using the one in libparted. I was wondering, > is this the case, and if so, why has that not been moved to libparted so > that both can benefit from it?
I presume that moving a file system may require knowledge of the internals of that file system, and Parted is getting rid of its FS-manipulation functionality (which includes "move", "check", "mkfs", etc.) Note that any FS-aware code in parted is probably broken when it comes to operating on a system with >512-byte sectors. > When I try moving a partition with parted, it complains about what > feature bits are in use on the filesystem, but why does it care? > Shouldn't it just be reading a number of blocks from the original > location and writing them to the destination? Well, I suppose it would > be nice to consult the block allocation bitmap so you can skip blocks > not in use, but not strictly required. If you can come up with reliable FS-independent code to move a partition and its file system, please post it. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
