Re: Hacking parted to work with BSD disklabels ...

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Timshel!

I haven't seen you for AGES... should meet in the city some time.
Lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays are good :-)  Dinner on Thursday is
also good.

Timshel Knoll wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew et al,
> 
> I'm mucking around trying to get *BSD diskables read in parted. This should
> be easy enough with a full disk disklabel (ie. not a disklabel in a MSDOS
> partition), but as soon as you have a disklabel in a DOS partition it
> creates problems ...

hmmm, yes.
 
> I'm looking for a workaround solution to this. The only ideas I have come
> up with is to either add calls in disk_dos.c to some bsd_* stuff, or to
> add a new FS type which is actually a wrapper around the bsd disklabel
> stuff. I think that the former is the preferable option.

New FS type?  Do you mean disk label type?

BTW: I don't know much about BSD slices... are there any good docs,
or readable code I can look at?  It's hard for me to comment, until I
know what I'm talking about ;-)

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen