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Parted CHS patch
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Parted CHS patch |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Aug 2004 22:56:23 +1000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
Hi all,
This is an untested patch to change the way Parted deals with CHS stuff.
I haven't added it to CVS yet.
* Parted maintains dev->bios_geom and dev->phys_geom. The latter
is useful for non-x86 architectures.
* For msdos partition tables, Parted now keeps a copy of how
each partition entry looked before Parted touched it. Parted uses
this to do "subjective" CHS (i.e. each partition can potentially
have a different BIOS CHS configuration). Also, if the partition
wasn't resized, Parted recycles the start/end CHS stuff.
* Parted continues to look in partition table entries and file system
BIOS Parameter Blocks to find CHS geometry stuff.
This is a rather intricate change. I would be surprised if there is
less than 20 problems with it. I'm looking forward to lots of comments!
Thanks,
Andrew
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