Re: 8th HFS resize patch

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:49:20AM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> It corrects an annoying bug of the 7th (bad calculation
> of the free block number in the HFS wrapper of an HFS+
> volume), which prevented mac os from booting after a
> resize.
> This bug didn't affect the hfs plus utils, used to do
> my previous tests, that's why I hadn't detected it sooner.
> HFS volumes weren't affected either.

Perhaps it would be useful to port Parted to Mac OSX?  Is that hard?
Anyone got a box I can ssh into?

I certainly won't have time in the next month to do this, though :/
Any volunteers?

It basically involves adding libparted/macosx.c, and implementing
all the functions in PedArchitecture (i.e. PedDiskArchOps, and
PedDeviceArchOps).  There are already two examples for you to work
from: libparted/linux.c and libparted/gnu.c.

Also, it would involve getting everything else to compile, but this
isn't very difficult.  I even got Parted running on MS-DOS (via djgpp)
a while back!  (But, I didn't know how to implement libparted/dos.c or
libparted/windows.c... lots of reading required!)

Cheers,
Andrew