Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[James Carlson]

Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Mark Phalan wrote:
> > Was there any consideration given to delivering ntfsprogs as public
> > utilities (rather than project private)?
> > I see that a limited sub-set of ntfsprogs is being delivered, no doubt
> > because thats the sub-set that gparted uses, but if ntfsprogs were to be
> > delivered in /usr/[s]bin it would be great to see the other utilities
> > included (ntfscp, ntfsls, ntfscat ...). I expect the demand for
> > user-accessible ntfsprogs will increase once ntfs-3g is delivered.
> >   
> 
> I think such utilities might be useful, but its not this project.

OK, then, I think that begs two questions:

  - If the ntfsprogs utilities were already included in the product as
    a supported feature, would this project use them as-is or would it
    still need to ship its own private variants?

  - Is there some savings in effort for locating the binaries in
    /usr/lib/parted versus in /usr/sbin?

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