parted 1.6.6-1.1 with amiga partitions support (rw) and amiga filesystems (ffs, sfs & pfs) probing.

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

Hello,

I have made new parted packages available at :

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

Which are now mostly ready, i submitted #212536 for it to be included in
the next debian package.

This version include complete read/write support for amiga partitions as
well as setting of name, boot and hidden (nomount that is) flags.

The parted infrastructure is not (yet ?) capable of handling other
partition attributes like boot priority and such, and setting the
dostype also don't work as expected, since parted wants to set the
dostype as it creates filesystem.

It is capable to recognize FFS and SFS partitions with blocks of any
size (and mufs also, but i didn't test it).

Untestedd PFS and AFS probing support is also provided, but as i don't
have any PFS/AFS filesystem at hand, nor the means to create one under
MorphOS, i cannot test it. It should work though, and if anyone see it
failing, please contact me and consider running some tests for me.

A hacked woody backport is also available at :

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

Which i use to build parted enabled boot-floppies.

What else can i say ? I will probably be looking into expanding the
filesystem support, at least adding creation of empty FFS and SFS
filesystems, and probably also support for partition attributes setting,
but not in the immediate future.

Also, i submitted the partitioning code to be included upstream, but
Andrew didn't like the filesystem code which needs the to get
information from the partition block about reserved/prealloc blocks as
well as blocksize and other such info. I know many of those are
autodetectable, but still.

A yes, i don't (yet) support checksum checking of the hardblocks,
altough they are correctly calculated when writing. I didn't implement
this because i have not yet sorted out the correct way of getting user
feedback in case of wrong checksums, and i am not sure if silently
fixing them is a good idea.

Anyway, please enjoy and test it some more, and thanks for all those
that have tested it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther