Re: Win Libparted

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > There also exists a libntfs (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/),
> > > adding ntfs support shouldn't be very difficult I think.
> > Probably it should be so difficult to write an interface in parted to
> > libntfs. But I guess, that it does not do all that things parted
> > requires from. I mean resize, copy, etc.
> 
> Notice that nothing forces you to implement all the libparted
> functionalities. You could start by implementing probe first, 

Probe is implemented in Parted but it's slightly incorrect. Signature in
the boot sector isn't "NTFS" but "NTFS    " (four spaces in the end).

> create second, and then go ahead and implement the other functions.

Definitely. Otherwise in ntfsprogs detect, resize, check, create 
are implemented, copy is not but as a first step it could be done 
as (shrink+clone or clone+enlarge). 

Oh yes, they aren't implemented as a library function -- that depends 
on demand/volunteer.  And that's quite low due to the existence of many
wrappers (Mandrake's DiskDrake, SUSE's YAST, QTparted, etc).

        Szaka