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viridio

Member

Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

Gparted 0.10 and fat16/32

Hi, i have recently updated slitaz cooking to its latest packages and everything works great. The only problem i had was with Gparted 0.10.0 when i tried to resize my usb stick that has a fat32 filesystem, even though i have dosfstools and mtools installed. In the "filesystem support" option of gparted both "grow" and "shrink" features appear as not available for fat16 and fat32.

According to gparted's feature page http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php for these options to work it says "Native available through libparted (versions < 3.0). For example libparted-2.4." and i have now updated to 3.0 version with my latest upgrade.

Any help would be appreciated.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Gparted 0.10 and fat16/32

It reads versions under version 3.0, meaning they probably altered or removed this functions in newer versions of libparted (or parted as it's named in SliTaz)

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,173

Re: Gparted 0.10 and fat16/32

@viridio

Rollback to the previous version of gparted/parted:

Boot the cooking iso you installed from which has the previous versions.

#tazpkg repack parted

#tazpkg repack gparted

Save the repacked previous versions to disk.

Reboot into the installed system.

Force install previous versions from disk.

#tazpkg install parted-2.4.tazpkg --forced

#tazpkg install gparted-0.8.0.tazpkg --forced

Block them to prevent upgrade.

#tazpkg block parted

#tazpkg block gparted

viridio

Member

Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

Re: Gparted 0.10 and fat16/32

Great info, thanks!!