Re: HFS and FAT FS-resizing returning soon (but to a separate library)

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 24, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
>> FYI, I've begun the process of restoring the FAT and HFS
>> file system resizing capability to the parted package.
> 
> Which variants of HFS are supported? I ask because Apple's own tool will not 
> resize hfs+ or hfsx (non-journaled). It only resizes jhfs+ and jhfsx.

Asking again. 

Presently linux read-write support is only HFS+. Journaled HFS+ support is read 
only. So it seems plausible that parted will not work on journaled HFS+/HFSX.

Apple has been using only journaled HFS+ and HFSX for about a decade now, only 
the two journaled variants are supported for booting for many years. HFS (the 
original) is basically dead.

So I'd like to know if the parted resizing explicitly supports journaled HFS+ 
and HFSX since those are the only formats likely to be encountered in the real 
world.



Chris Murphy