[Libguestfs] [PATCH 00/10] virt-resize: add support for resizing MBR logical partitions

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 02:14:12AM -0400, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
> In current virt-resize, only primary partitions(including
> extended partition) are supported. They are collected in an
> array for resize operations. Logical partitions are not
> supported.
> 
> This series add support for resizing logical partitions.
> 
> Original patches by Hu Tao at:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-October/msg00238.html
> 
> Chen Hanxiao (10):
>   resize: don't filter out logical partitions
>   resize: don't count new size of logical and extended partition
>   resize: caculate the size of logical partitions
>   resize: update calculate_target_partitions for logical partitions
>   resize: calculate location of the partitions of logical partition
>   resize: skip overlap check for logical partitions
>   resize: parted logical partitions
>   resize: caculate surplus for resize extended partition
>   resize: support resize extended partition
>   resize: test: add support for resizing extended and logical partitions
> 
>  resize/resize.ml           | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  resize/test-virt-resize.pl |  32 ++--------
>  2 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

No, this patch series cannot be applied.

It doesn't model what extended / logical partitions look like.

It's very hard to understand what changes are being made.  The commits
are not grouped in a way that makes them easily understandable to me.

Rich.

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