On 1/5/07, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
On 05.01.2007 03:59, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 00:25 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: [...]
<snip> Nothing about anaconda? In particular, the partitioning phase is (more or less) the same since FC1 and not having something in place to resize an existing (most likely ntfs) partition is a big drawback when compared to other distros.
Handling resize nicely is going to require a bit of rethinking and reworking of the entire partitioning interface (not to mention the backend code). Given resource constraints, there's just not really a good way to get to something that's feature complete without losing big pieces in time for the feature freeze at test2.
It's definitely something on the bigger picture roadmap for anaconda, but this just isn't going to be the release where it's reasonable for it to happen.
Just FYI: Vista will afaik be able to resize NTFS filesystems on it own.
I was not aware. thanks.
Thus you should be able to free some space on a hard-disk with Vista and install Linux to it. So I'm wondering if we need the resize-feature in the future as much as we do today.
Given that, I guess there will be less pressure to add that feature. However, I think it's global value is still quite the same, because it gives users the ability to install Fedora on a brand new PC without intermediate steps in an external environment: just insert the install DVD and boot.