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| See http://wiki.debian.org/Parted |
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| === everything below is old and for reference purposes only === |
| |
| * regression tests: |
| - add specific tests for FAT16 -> FAT32, FAT32 -> FAT16, cluster |
| resizing 8k -> 4k, etc. Also, compare output, to catch other "unexpected" |
| errors (like partitions going missing, <cough> not that that's ever |
| happened <cough>) |
| |
| * ui: |
| - support a cylinder interface for the masochistic. |
| - warn when partition numbers change (?) in UI? |
| |
| * make *_read() do ped_file_system_probe(), and warn if it isn't sane for |
| the partition ID on-disk. |
| |
| * disk label implementations: |
| - OS/2 DLAT support |
| - read-only flag for Mac partitions, and the macufs partition type |
| - lba flag - default flag? |
| - PC98: relax cylinder boundary restrictions (create conforming |
| partitions, but allow non-conforming partitions ;-) |
| |
| * docs for RAWRITE, etc. |
| |
| * write a summary of operation list things, and get discussion going... |
| * ped_file_system_is_flag_available() |
| * ped_file_system_commit() ? polymorphic operations, with apply() and |
| revert() in memory, and commit all fs's and disk's to commit on-disk. |
| * ped_operation_queue (ped_operation_new (PED_OP_PARTITION_SET_FLAG, ...)), |
| or ped_partition_set_flag() (with a "transparent" queue?) |
| |
| * separate domains libparted and parted (for nls) |
| * merge with partimage.sourceforge.net |
| * merge with gpart |
| * "renumber" |
| * "reconstruct" |
| * "resizepart" |
| * make an errata web page |
| * bootdisk: try getting readline & nls support in, use a newer version of |
| busybox. Also, write some scripts for disk imaging. |
| * Rawrite3 IS free, it seems. Find the source (version 1.3 == version 3), and |
| stick source+bin up on the ftp site. |
| * improve website (check out texinfo. Does it create much autoconfusion?) |
| |
| * /proc/meminfo, mlock() |
| |
| * create an FAQ, and stick lots of examples in it. |
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| * ped_file_system_resize_online() |
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| * reiser fs (almost there), ntfs support! |
| |
| * when Windows doesn't shut down properly, it knows about it. How? |
| * FAT boot sector reconstruction, in fat_check() - actually, fat_open(), |
| since it won't open properly if it's broken... Tell panov@iacp.vl.ru when |
| done. Perhaps connect this to the front-end via a "force MINOR FS-TYPE" |
| command, since it's sometimes hard to detect broken file systems. |
| |
| * FreeBSD support (get a copy - I want to try it anyway!) |
| |
| * LBA support in boot loader |
| |
| * OS/2 Boot manager |
| |
| * documentation of the internal API, tutorial on external API, and perhaps a bit |
| on how the resizers, etc. work [MOSTLY DONE] |
| |
| * logical sectors (?) byte addressing? |
| |
| * libbootload ? |
| - update LILO/GRUB/Quik |
| |
| * command-line interface: i18n issues, "Yes, No or Cancel?". This issue is |
| hard, for free software in general. We need a community (i.e. mailing list) |
| that specializes in this, IMHO. |
| |
| * ped_geometry_{map|unmap}(), and kill the libparted/fs_ext2 buffer cache |
| |
| * injecting/ejecting partitions into/out of extended partitions. But to |
| keep alignment rules, would have to move the start of the partition. No |
| problem for FAT. Absolute pain for ext2. |
| |
| * ext2 resizer: |
| - add ability to move the start of the file system. |
| - fix "strange layout" problem |
| - add an incompat feature to ext2 that is a special resize-the-start |
| journal, and add support in e2fsck / mount / linux (?) for it. |
| |
| * RAID? LVM? EVMS? grand-unified system TM? |
| |
| * support finding bad-blocks. Use ped_device_check() in ped_geometry_check() |
| |
| * generic resizing/converting with the inplace copy via sparse loopback idea |
| from Serguei Tzukanov |
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