Partition Surprise 0.1

Jan Kara jkar8572@users.sourceforge.net, Daniel Kral kral@users.sourceforge.net, Jan Kratochvil kratochvil@users.sourceforge.net, Robert Spalek spalek@users.sourceforge.net, Tomas Tichy xtom@users.sourceforge.net

1. Structure of Partition Surprise

• 1.1 User interfaces
• 1.2 Partition module
• 1.3 General converter
• 1.4 Filesystems

2. Technical documentation

• 2.1 Frequently Asked Questions

3. Description of Partition Surprise Library API

• 3.1 General description of API usage
• 3.2 Filesystem specific and global parameters
• 3.3 Data structures used for data location
• 3.4 Error handling
• 3.5 Current limits (in future versions may be removed)
• 3.6 Overview of rules required for clients

4. Part module

• 4.1 Get_resources request processing
• 4.2 Commit request processing
• 4.3 Partition modifications

5. Partitioner module

• 5.1 Disk parameters reflecting the partition table structure
• 5.2 Partition table specific interface
• 5.3 PC type partition table partitioner
• 5.4 BSD type partition table partitioner
• 5.5 Mac type partition table partitioner

6. Surprise Online Partition Resizing & Moving And Ext2 Resizing

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Kernel part
• 6.3 Userspace part

7. Description of Filesystem API

• 7.1 Filesystem implementation types
• 7.2 Filesystem general initialization
• 7.3 Import filesystem callback sequence
• 7.4 Export filesystem callback sequence
• 7.5 Specification of FS API functions

8. General Converter

• 8.1 Description of GConv API
• 8.2 GConv API defines
• 8.3 GConv API types
• 8.4 GConv API functions
• 8.5 Accelerated actions
• 8.6 Supplementary functions
• 8.7 GConv in general case
• 8.8 Used algorithm
• 8.9 View of GConv source files
• 8.10 Desription of important GConv functions
• 8.11 The GConv Tree

9. Supported filesystems

• 9.1 Linux ext2 filesystem internals
• 9.2 FAT filesystem internals
• 9.3 Linux swap manager internals

10. Surprise Online Partition Resizing & Moving And Ext2 Resizing

• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Kernel part
• 10.3 Userspace part

11. Partition Surprise client technical documentation

• 11.1 Command Line User Interface (technical documentation)
• 11.2 Curses User Interface (technical documentation)

12. Text Protocol Server

• 12.1 Text Protocol Server - launching and server loop
• 12.2 Text Protocol Server - reading input
• 12.3 Text Protocol Server - printing output

13. Description of Text Protocol API

• 13.1 Initialization of SurpriseServer
• 13.2 General description of SurpriseServer usage
• 13.3 Description of expected SurpriseServer input
• 13.4 Description of SurpriseServer answers
• 13.5 Description of commonly used structures by SurpriseServer
• 13.6 Notation used to describe SurpriseServer language

14. Miscelanous technical references

• 14.1 locales usage
• 14.2 gettext usage
• 14.3 Surprise Error System
• 14.4 Filesystem parameters generator
• 14.5 System booting procedures
• 14.6 Progress bar support
• 14.7 Rules for writing documenentation

15. Technical TODO list