Re: Partition codes

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:54:20AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> See the code/patches at the "Cockpit Partitioner" project, which has a
> bunch of changes I made to parted to allow it to be easily scripted and
> also support setting numeric partition types.  The project is dead, but
> the code lives on (unmaintained).
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cockpit-part/

The reason I didn't apply the patch is it wasn't really complete.
It didn't have an UI, for example.  Also, I think an EVMS-style
parameter system is a better solution (but I have no objections to
switching to something like that further down the track).

> Yes, Andrew hates numeric partition types, but they are a requirement
> for certain cases (BIOS, Windows, etc).

While I don't like partition types (not just numeric ones), I do think
Parted should support them.  Just a clean implementation isn't obvious.
Like I said before, something like EVMS' parameter system is needed,
and I don't have time ATM for that...

Cheers,
Andrew