Re: new parted version available for testing ... (fwd)

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> > The block size can be guessed by verifying the checksum of the root block 
> > (e.g. affs does that), but the other values are only in the RDB.
> 
> Seems a nice trick. But it would be a problem if the blocks after the
> one are written only by 0s.

Not if you start with the smallest blocksize, as there is always data 
relativ to the end of the block.

> I guess you could make some guess for the other
> values by testing various values when searching for the rdb.

Not really, to find the root block you already need the reserved value 
(the implementations currently cheat here a bit and assume a small 
reserved value, preferably 2).

> > larger block sizes, but that wasn't successfull, maybe my amiga os version 
> > doesn't support that.
> 
> Ok, thanks, i will have a look. It is GPLed code, right, and there is no
> problem with myself inspiring me from it for writing parted code ?

Yes and no, take whatever you need. :)

bye, Roman