Re: Default disk partition table type?

[Guido Guenther]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:32:28PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Guido Guenther]
> >> I believe the available values are "bsd", "loop", "mac", "msdos",
> >> "pc98" and "sun".  I got the values from the parted documentation.
> > big endian mips currently only uses SGI disklabels.
> 
> Which of the parted disk label names is this?  'bsd'?  Or is it not
> supported by parted?
According to the source code there's sgi disklabel support in parted
1.6.3 (although incorreclty called 'mips'). Shouldn't we do:

--- libparted/disk_mips.c.orig  Wed Dec 11 12:13:54 2002
+++ libparted/disk_mips.c       Wed Dec 11 12:14:00 2002
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@
 
 static PedDiskType mips_disk_type = {
        next:           NULL,
-       name:           "mips",
+       name:           "sgi-mips",
        ops:            &mips_disk_ops,
        features:       PED_DISK_TYPE_PARTITION_NAME | PED_DISK_TYPE_EXTENDED
 };

since there are many mips based systems not using sgi disklabels. The
autopartkit should check for __MIPSEB__.
Regards,
 -- Guido

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