On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 10:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hello Nick! > > On 9/26/21 00:49, Nick Black wrote: > > It supports MBR, GPT, and APM: > > > > https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/blob/master/src/ptable.c#L51-L123 > > > > (sorry for the gmail-style top posting; i can't find your mail in my mbox > > for whatever reason) > > > > Any other partition schemes ought be trivial to add; they've not been added > > yet > > simply because I don't have means with which to test them. > > So, you are not using libparted then? > > > Looking at the "partition types" section of the Linux configuration, I see: > > Acorn, AIX, Alpha, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, MSDOS, BSD, Minix, Solaris > > x86, Unixware, > > Windows LDM, SGI, Ultrix, Sun, Karma, EFI/GPT, and SYSV68. > > > > Looking at the disk-label code from partman, I see: > > gpt, msdos, amiga, atari, mac, sun > > > > So the only ones covered by partman and not covered by growlight would be: > > amiga, atari, sun, > > and mac (if mac is not the same as APM). I don't see any difficulty in > > adding these four, so long > > as there's someone with an Amiga or ATARI who'd be willing to test them > > out. If there are no such > > people, is it that important? > > Yes, it is important as we're supporting these architectures in Debian Ports > and I invested quite some time to get Atari partition support added [1], > for example. > > I think it makes little sense to not use libparted as it already supports > all common and less common partition types and reimplementing everything > that libparted makes little sense to me. > > Adrian
Does libparted support the discoverable partitions spec? Kind Regards, Luca Boccassi
