[closed] merging partition wanted

Hi and thanks for a great product
is it any plans for a merging feature in Gparted, it should be really nice to know if it will be implemented ?

Best Regards /Zteam

I think you should inform the user about that and give him the following options:

1. Cancel the operation.
2. Rename all files with the same filename
3. Create a new map for the "double-files" and put them there

But of course this is just suggestions, I don't what tools Gparted is using and how hard or easy it is to rename files and create directory to the filesystems

Nice
I must admit I have never used it myself either.
But this thread did surely had lots of views so I think it's a wanted feature?
Maybe a poll about it could tell us how many here think it's useful?

There is also another way of merging,
to merge 2 partitions select the first partition, that should be enlarged.
select the second partitions that will be used, unneeded to say it have to reside next to the first,
and copy the content of the first partition  in an named directory on the first partition.

That is the way like they did it in Part...Mag...7.0

after that the search in the files for references on former "H:" and rename it to "G:\old_H"

btw i need it too.

If there is enough free space in the 1st partition to get all the content of the 2nd partition, that's right.

It sounds good, but I think there would be some functional problems, mainly in w!n installations. The real problems have to do not with the merging itself, but with the "side effects":

A problem that might occur is the limit of the filename path of 260 characters in the w!n filesystems. Adding another step in the path could make some files unusable.

What would happen with paths and disk names (D:, E:, F: etc) in the w!n registry and the installed software paths and files? Can such a function be smart enough to adjust all these points? Perhaps yes, but what if special administrator rights are needed to perform such tasks? I expect more problems with v!st@. So, I'm afraid that users without experience would be forced to reinstall some of their software. So, I think that users could merge w!n partitions at their own risk

With Linux partitions, I would expect far fewer problems that can be arranged by the configuration files.

But a general question is what  happens if the 2 partitions to merge have not the same filesystem, or what happens if the new merged partition falls outside the filesystem limits (i.e. maximum size of a FAT partition, long filenames, unicode character names ... ). The user must be aware of the possible issues and the solutions applied by the program.

A final issue: If the 1st partition can't contain all the 2nd one's files, the merging can be done by steps, but this would be perhaps very slow, as it happens sometimes with slight partition moving.

Hi all, I'm new here, and new to GParted, too! Thank you for such a really cool product!

Yeah, I also vote for this feature! I have 3 partitions on my HDD, and need to merge 2 of them... Agreed with fk at #7, just put all merged files on a directory, with the exact structure.

If the 2 (wanna be) merged partitions were having a different filesystem, let the user choose which one to use on the newly merged partition. And remind user for such consequences. This would be much acceptable and easy to understand, even by newbie like me

Wow, can't wait to see this!