Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by tptacek on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:11AM
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The title of this story is especially annoying, then. Why did 'bigfoot try to bait us?
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Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by bigfoot on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:35AM
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Because the only thing I knew up to now was:
a) libparted moved to v3.0 and removed lots of filesystem specific code, and
b) as a consequence, gparted cannot deal with lots of filesystems anymore since v0.9.0 (when linked to libparted 3.0).
These are the facts available to me, I wasn't trying to bait anyone. I found it of common interest that in a year or so, when these parted/gparted versions arrive in the major distributions, you won't be able to do certain things with GParted you used to do, like resizing a FAT32 partition.
Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by tptacek on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:39AM
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You editorialized the title. We don't do that here. Please stop doing that. The scare quotes around "improvements" were particularly uncalled for. There was obviously a neutral way to word this story beyond "Release notes for GParted 0.9.0".
You could, if you were so inclined, fix the title now. "GParted 0.9.0 loses ability to resides FAT filesystems" might work.
Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by bigfoot on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:48AM
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PS: Sorry, YC disallows me from editing the title at this point of time. If anyone reading this has the administrative powers to do that, please go ahead.
Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by bigfoot on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:46AM
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I indeed edited the title very shortly after posting; I changed "Gparted" into "GParted". I was unaware this would pose a problem.
About the scare quotes: I agree, I should've posted this in an unbiased way. I will change the title in a second to what you suggested.
Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by tptacek on Monday August 08, 2011 @11:46AM
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Thanks! That's very cool of you.
Re:GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements...
by scott_s on Monday August 08, 2011 @02:22PM
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I'm sorry for piling on, but the thing to do then is to do some research on the topic before submitting it. A few minutes of googling and looking at forums and change-logs should help give you an idea.