Re: Compiling parted

[Dan Knapp]

> You also need the e2fsprogs-devel package.  This contains headers, and
> static libraries.

  Ahh, thanks, that got it working.  (If anybody has this problem in future,
the packages Debian needs are e2fslibs-dev and uuid-dev.)  So, the result:
it prints the partition table correctly, and the result appears to agree
with what fdisk (which is the only tool I've seen that doesn't care about
cylinder boundaries) prints.

  What is the issue here, exactly?  I can imagine that the structure of some
loop might make it easier to be sure that code was bugless for
cylinder-aligned partitions, or something...  Or is it just the check itself?
Are there any non-destructive ways that I can help in testing or finishing
the implementation of support for non-cylinder-aligned partitions?  (I'm
willing to write code, if someone else can test it...)


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