Hello everyone ...

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

Hello everyone ...

It has been a long time since i was not active on the apus lists, i was
unsubscribed some time ago without noticing, and only recently managed
to resubscribe.

Anyway, i am now working on porting amiga partitioning to libparted and
thus parted, which will be used on the next gen debian-installer.

I think i have working code, but would like to have as large as possible
feedback on the partition table reading code and especially on the
filesystem detection code. In particular i am interested with people
having sfs or various versions of pfs/afs filesystems on their
partitions.

The current version of my work can be found at :

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/parted

And is of no danger to your harddisk, since it lacks write support (for
amiga partition tables and amiga filesystems, it still writes other
partition tables and filesystems).

So, download and install the libparted and parted packages, and run
parted on your harddisk, with just the command print (p). And send me
the output of that, with some information on the history of your
harddisk, like with what it was partitioned originally, and if some of
your partitions did support damage which made them wrong behaved, or if
you redimensioned a sfs partition for example.

It works mostly well, but i have a problem with my hdtoolbox in 97 or
so, which has a cylblocks value which is one less than the sectors*head
value shown in the RDB. I wonder if this is just me, or if other people
have similar disks. My other amiga-fdisk formated disk don't exhibit
this problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther