> > Well, the reason I was in favor of using Parted was to have a single clean
> > code base for the partition reading, and preferably to use Zthe canonical
> > sanctioned GNU thing if technical concerns permit.
>
> What is the canonical sanctioned GNU thing?
I was referring to Parted. Since it
> > Thus, it might be reasonable to ask the Parted developers to create
> > a mini library, e.g. libpartread, which contains the desired
> > functionality.
>
> Well, the reason I was in favor of using Parted was to have a single clean
> code base for the partition reading, and preferably to use Z
> Roland, as you have suggested, I have taken a look at using libparted
> in libstore. This seems reasonable to do, however, it has two main
> drawback: it is huge, which is to say, we want to read a partition table
> (libparted does a lot of checks) and we do not really care about creating
> oth
Roland, as you have suggested, I have taken a look at using libparted
in libstore. This seems reasonable to do, however, it has two main
drawback: it is huge, which is to say, we want to read a partition table
(libparted does a lot of checks) and we do not really care about creating
other partiti