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GParted 0.0.7

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-12-04 18:49. GNOME System Tools
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gparted-0.0.7 is finally here. It took some time, because i had to rewrite a lot of code.
Every filesystem now has its own class and is responsible for its own creation, resizing etc..
This makes it very easy to add more filesystems to gparted and that's what we all want :)

Because the ext2/3 code of libparted was slightly outdated and sometimes caused trouble gparted now uses the e2fstools to handle them. Same goes for reiserfs, you now need the official tools from namesys to handle reiserfs partitions.

In short:
- improved support for ext2/3 and reiserfs
- added full support for ntfs
- many addition and improvements

More information can be found in the Changelog

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Have fun and don't forget to report your bugs :^)

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Works great!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-12-06 09:40.

Thank you. It works great!
One of the programs with the most finishing touches I have seen in a while!

XFS Support?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-05 09:59.

This may be a more upstream-related question, but is there any plan to support XFS? On its own, xfs does support growing a partition, but not shrinking one, and I'd like to be able to nondestructively manipulate mine. :)

yup, i'll add support for xfs

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-05 11:11.

yup, i'll add support for xfs in 0.0.8 which will be released shortly.

That rocks! thanks. :)

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-05 15:26.

That rocks! thanks. :)

Weird...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-05 04:39.

"- added full support for ntfs"

I unmounted my NTFS file system (/dev/hda4) and now gparted says "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem! As a result you won't be able to resize your partition." Just a moment ago I had it mounted and was able to read it just fine. I just want to copy it to /dev/hdcx. Using GNU Parted 1.6.19 and gparted 0.0.7. Ideas?

Hi, I guess you don't have

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-05 08:09.

Hi,

I guess you don't have ntfsprogs installed. When a partition is mounted it's easy to get the used/unused space through statfs. When it isn't you need a driver that's able to read the contents of a filesystem.

Just install ntfsprogs from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ and restart gparted. After that it should work.

And yes, i should make this more clear in the GUI, i'm working on it :)

I'd try it...

Submitted by Tyr_7BE on Sun, 2004-12-05 02:38.

...but I don't have the need to partition right now, and I don't have the balls to parition for the sake of partitioning :)

Still though, fantastic work! Really well-done graphical tools like gParted and Gnome System Tools have been a welcome trend lately.

Cool, there are .debs :-) An

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-12-04 20:14.

Cool, there are .debs :-)
Any chance this will land in Debian Unstable or Experimental?