Re: [GParted-Devel] GParted 0.4.6 Released

[Curtis G. <ge...@gm...>]

Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op dinsdag 11-08-2009 om 14:09 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Curtis
> Gedak:
>   
>> Hence the problem might be more to do with how GParted curretnly
>> works, than how a specific GNU/Linux distro is setup.  
>>     
>
> I wonder if it would be okay to mount unmounted partitions, get the
> necessary info, and then unmount again?
>
>   
That is an option.

My preference is minimize the changes GParted makes to the computer 
(ideally zero :).  By this I mean minimize the changes that were not 
applied by the user.  Mounting and unmounting file systems can bring up 
another set of problems.  For instance if file systems were not 
unmounted cleanly then a full fsck is required.  This might take 
significantly longer than the current solution.

Ideally a better solution can be found to quickly determine the number 
of used/free sectors in a file system.