Re: resizing hfs+ partition

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:26:44PM -0600, dotgl1970 wrote:
> On Sunday 16 January 2005 03:43, Sven Luther 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
> >
> > Didn't we discuss this some time past and decided to apply this patch-set
> > to the main parted ?
> 
> Really?? I search in the mailing list files and I did not find how to apply 
> the patch, is before or after installin parted.
> and I have no clue of how to do it.

You need to rebuild parted obviously.

> Everywhere just says  "Patch parted" and anything else, I drop the patch in a 
> directory before or after install patch? and in wich directory?

Notice that the debian parted version already include this patch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther