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

[Mr. Z]

There's not really any explicit APIs such as FsRtlCreatePartition or 
FsRtlResizePartition that I've seen either... You have to spelunk around the 
DDK to get the appropriate IOCTLs and structures used for GPT and MFT style 
drives to call ZwDeviceIoControl directly.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Andrew Green
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:40 PM
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] 1st stage gui installer partition manipulation

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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