Re: resizing hfs+ partition

[K.G.]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:41:42 +0100
Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:26:48PM +0100, K.G. wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:12:05 -0600
> > dotgl1970 <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > I installed parted-1.6.20.tar.gz 
> > > from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/
> > > 
> > > And I am trying to resize a hfs partition, 
> > > I have had no success because of:
> > > 
> > > no support hfs+ partition yet.
> > > 
> > > Well how I could get that support? in parted
> > 
> > You need a patch :
> > http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.19-hfs-16.patch.gz
> > 
> > It can be quite difficult to apply and build it properly with
> > Parted 1.6.20 instead of 1.6.19, so unless you're a hacker
> > maybe you should try to apply it to 1.6.19, or even use
> > http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.19-hfs-16.tar.bz2
> > which is an already patched version of Parted, with also a
> > quick hack that greatly increase HFS resize speed on some
> > computers.
> 
> BTW, i have a bug report telling me that there is no support for journaled
> HFS+, could you comment on this ? 
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 

This is true, although this is more a feature request than a bug report :)
I've already written the code to handle journals some month ago, but it
needs a few more tests
( the code is at http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/Beta/ )

For the moment an easy solution is to desactivate the journal with mac os x 
disk utils (or command line tools) before resizing, and activating it back 
after.

Friendly,
Guillaume