Idea for Bounty item: libntfs plugin for libparted --> partman support for NTFS resize

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Apr 9 06:11:24 CDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:21 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> I've added a note about this idea at:
> 
>   https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/IdeaPool
> 
> If 'libntfs' was interfaced with 'libparted' then the partitioner could
> be taught how to resize NTFS partitions so that duel booting with
> Windows XP would be possible. A preliminary investigation into the
> source code shows that it can probably be done; 'libparted' seems to be
> designed with this sort of thing in mind. -- KarlHeg

The installer supports resizing NTFS already. I've done it five times in
the past month.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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