[haiku-development] Re: Partitioning support in Alpha/1

  • From: "Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:43:41 -0500

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:37 PM, kallisti5 <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:14:40 -0800, "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +1 for dropping 3) from alpha.
>> With 1) being required, and 2) if only if it's not too much work.
>> -scottmc
>>
>
> I would be more then happy just having the ability to create and destroy
> the 4 major partitions from within Haiku and set their ID
>
> If someone wants to resize an existing partition and worry about
> pre-existing file system contents they can buy one of those new-fangled
> partition editing/resizing suites (or boot gparted) :P
>
> --Alex
>
>

A port of libparted (which can't do NTFS resizing) plus linux-ntfs
which has libntfs. ntfsresize shouldn't be difficult to get code from-
The only problem is that it's GPL.

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