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From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 08:12:04 +1000
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:10:08PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> To support doing what to Reiser4?
> 
> "parted" is a disk management project -- specifically, a way to create,
> delete, and resize partitions.  Think of it as fdisk with nicer units
> and built-in resizefs tools.
> 
> This would, I think, involve creating a fully functional
> resizefs.reiser4 -- something I distinctly remember Hans telling me not
> to do, because my approach also created (most of) an online repacker,
> which is something Hans wants to do for money.

It would be possible to implement mkfs and fsck support only.

Cheers,
Andrew