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Re: Win Libparted


From: Yury V. Umanets
Subject: Re: Win Libparted
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:47:06 +0300

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:33, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:16:03PM +0300, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 21:04, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm not aware of any Free partition programs available for Windows.
> > > > 
> > > > Free in what sense? :) There are a lot free (as free beer) but none with
> > > > source AFAIK -- although I've never checked :)
> > > 
> > > Free as in freedom; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > > 
> > > 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, create
> second, and then go ahead and implement the other functions.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
Probe is implemented I guess. Create is not difficult, there is needed
functionality in libntfs. But the rest... I'm not sure about. It will
require lots of research I guess :)
-- 
umka





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