Hi! The latest upload of parted fixes a 12-year-old wishlist bug which is adding support for Atari partition tables [1].
The original patch was written by Guillaume Knispel in 2005. I have picked up his patch and ported it to the current codebase, added missing tests to the testsuite and verified it builds and passes all tests correctly. I have also verified that it can create valid Atari partition tables. Thus, with parted_3.2-17 or later, it's now possible to edit Atari partition tables which can be used on a real Atari or Aranym after byte-swapping the whole partition. This means, if you create an empty image, partition it with parted on an x86_64 machine, you need to enable byte-swapping for this particular disk in Aranym before you can use it. To use such an image on an actual Atari, you need to pass "conv=swab" to the "dd" command when writing the image to or from disk. I assume you could also loopback-mount an Atari disk with the help of lvm to get it to byte-swap on the fly, but I never tried that. Either way, parted now supports Atari partition tables in Debian! Have fun! Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239816 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
