[ros-dev] 1st stage gui installer partition manipulation

[Andrew Green]

I know it doesn't create partitions. Though it will allow you to
format a created partition.

Unfortunately I don't know of any api to create or delete partitions.
Though there surely is one. I just need to find it.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Eric Kohl <eric.kohl at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello Andrew!
>
> AFAICS, the page you mentioned below discusses the creation of file systems
> and how to check them. It does not discuss the creation of partitions.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
> Andrew Green wrote:
>>
>> I have stumbled across this documentation
>> http://doc.sch130.nsc.ru/www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/fmifs.shtml.
>>
>> What it contains discusses how partitions are created. The very cool
>> thing is that by using FMIFS in the installer means that you can
>> delete,create and resize all the partitions that the disk manager
>> supports. This means it will make it a lot easier to add support to
>> both without duplicating efforts.(windows vista+ has resizing xp
>> doesn't seem to though)
>>
>> The current text installer doesn't use this as this part of reactos
>> code is incomplete.
>>
>> I would like to add this to my gsoc proposal. Though I know I'm
>> probably not going to get a place it may help me if I get a chance to
>> do it in the future or maybe this could give ideas to someone else who
>> tries.
>>
>> Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>>
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