Re: [aclug-L] kernel updates

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope.  And actually Partition Magic does resize things.  And its code
was written by Ted T'so, the author of ext2fs.  See:

http://www.partitionmagic.com/product/pm/PMdescription.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/09/22/2153256.shtml
http://slashdot.org/articles/980717/1313230.shtml

There are some good articles on the 'net about ext2fs and a few books
cover it, too.

Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> By my understanding to write a program that would resize/move/copy an
> ext2fs partition would be next to impossible. Then again my understanding 
> of the internals of ext2 is relatively minimal, due to I have only limited
> resources about it.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Bob Deep wrote:
> 
> > jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > 
> > > You might be able to use Partition Magic to adjust the partitions.  I know
> > > it recognizes the Linux partitions, but I'm not sure if it manipulates
> > > them.  
> > 
> > Partition Magic does not resize linux partitions.  Nor does it copy
> > them, move them or know much at all about them except that they are
> > linux partitions, how big they are, and where they are.
> > 
> > Sounds like a good project for some linux folk...  
> > 
> > -= Bob =-
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