Re: whazzup with fat16 ?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:35:08AM +0200, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the explanation. I guess i should politely inform users
> about this and advise them to change their filesystem to fat32 then.

Why advise them anything?  Parted will do what is necessary...
Sometimes, it will convert FAT32 to FAT16.

> Now we're on the subject of filesystem limitations.. Is there any change
> libparted will be able to move the start of ext2/ext3/reiserfs in the
> near future? Is someone working on this and does he need help ?

AFAIK, no-one is working on it.

I think the right approach for ext2/3 would be to fix e2fsprogs /
libext2fs to give it a reasonable interface, and use that instead
of the current libparted ext2 code base.

But, I'm accepting patches either way...

Cheers,
Andrew