RE: Move NTFS partitions ?

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, David Balazic wrote:
> > From: Szakacsits Szabolcs [mailto:address@hidden
>
> > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Balazic wrote:
> >
> > > When will parted support moving ntfs partitions?
> > > Moving shouldn't change the content anyway, so it should
> > > be simply. Or am I missing something ?
> >
> > If the partition is a boot/system partition then
> >
> >  - the "hidden sectors" field in the BPB must be adjusted accordingly
> >
> >  - if the place of the new partition changes in the partition
> > table then
> >    additional modifications are needed e.g. to boot.ini, etc
>
> Yes, but this is true for FAT too, isn't it ?

Yes and I suspect some of the FAT related problems are due to these. These 
issues happened less often when disks were smaller and they manifest more 
often as they grow.

FAT has also lower size limits which may prevent seeing this problem more 
often.

Another issue is that while FAT is very simple, only about 2-3,000 lines of 
code, NTFS is over 250,000 (and though all required code exists and it's 
stable but the task overall is relatively too laborious and far not the 
most requested).

        Szaka

> >  - files and the related NTFS metadata used during boot must be in the
> >    actually set BIOS addressable range