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

[Jim Meyering]

Chris Murphy wrote:

> 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.

I'm restoring resize capability (albeit only via a library)
that was present in parted-2.3/2.4 and earlier, so one way to check
is to actually use an older version of parted on HFS+/HFSX file systems.

If you read the code or documentation, you'll see mention of
both HFS+ and HFSX, in addition to HFS.

Or you can take a wild guess:
Would people be complaining about removal of this functionality
(and would I be taking the time to restore it) if it affected
only some type of file system that no one uses anymore?