new parted version available for testing ...

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

Hello everyone.

I have a new parted version available for testing at :

  deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/parted .
 
for apt-get, but you can also get it directly.

It is a full build, but you only need the libparted and parted packages.

This one has full partition table read/write acces, altough the write
support is not yet intesively tested, so please make a copy of your
partition table first. How you do that ? You simply launch parted, use
the print option, and look at the rdb_RDBBlocksHi value of the rdb (609
for me) and then you can do :

  # dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.backup count=609

Which will save the whole partiton table (in my case naturally). You can
restore it with :

  # dd if=sda.backup of=/dev/sda

And everything will be as usual.

There isa lot of debugging information included, but it goes to the
stderr, so you can write it to a log file with :

  # parted 2> parted.log

And if you have any problems, or see wrong stuff in your partition
table, please send it to me.

The code for detecting the filesystem type for ffs, sfs and pfs
filesystem doesn't yet include support for block sizes other than 512.
Support for that would need some changes in parted, but i will be
working on it nextly.

Ffs, sfs and pfs filesystems only support the probing code right now, so
you cannot create new or duplicate or copy existing filesystemes of
these types.

Ok, that is all for this week, please give it a try if you have a spare
harddisk or something, and report to me anything special you notice.

Note to the linux-m68k people, Andrew Clausen said that he (or i) will
add the fixes to the ufs code needed for running on m68k, but it is not
yet in this version, so you have to disable the ufs and maybe reiserfs
filesystems as before. Geert, if i remember well, the amiga filesystem
stuff did also segfault on your m68k box, if this is still true, i would
like to debug this stuff nextly. Also, could someone forward this mail
to the corresponding linux-m68k mailing list, and/or send me the
corresponding address, so i can include it in a next roundmail about
this.

BTW, if someone feels like building parted on morphos i would be happy
to know the result. There doesn't seem to be any fork or something such
in the code, and the low level read/write stuff is either using the
linux arch or the gnu arch. I guess the gnu arch should be able to run
with the ixemul.library, or whatever similar thing we have in morphos
these days. I would do it myself, but i am not really familiar with the
morphos development environment yet.

Friendly,

Sven Luther