Re: Parted for OSX

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:28:09AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Sorry to bother you, I saw a note that you might think about porting
> Parted to OSX.

I did investigate this possibility.  I am no longer involved with
Parted, however.

The main problem was that some of Parted's dependencies (in particular,
e2fsprogs) were not included in Fink.  I don't remember if I tried to
compile e2fsprogs in OSX...

e2fsprogs plays a minor role in Parted... it's only for libuuid, which
is only used in a couple of places (such as Intel EFI GPT support).

I expect you could get something working without too much trouble.

> I am actively looking for a utility to include with an
> applescript I am working on to re-size an HFS+ (Journaled) partition.
> I can turn journaling off before the resize if Parted does not support
> it.

I believe Parted supports resizing journaled HFS+.

> Also, has the utility fixed the ability to size an HD from the bottom
> up, or only from the top down?

I believe it only supports "top down".

Cheers,
Andrew