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On Saturday 11 March 2006 20:46, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Heh, now I am defending a feature I don't really want, need or care
> about myself.  It's just that the idea is not that bad, not that I
> want it or so.

Interesting. :)

BTW, if one really wants to implement fancy partition manipulation features, 
the right way would be to use libparted. This was discussed for GRUB Legacy 
in the past, but I don't remember the conclusion.

Okuji