Re: Compiling parted

[Andrew Clausen]

Dan Knapp wrote:
> 
> > You also need the e2fsprogs-devel package.  This contains headers, and
> > static libraries.
> 
>   Ahh, thanks, that got it working.  (If anybody has this problem in future,
> the packages Debian needs are e2fslibs-dev and uuid-dev.)  So, the result:
> it prints the partition table correctly, and the result appears to agree
> with what fdisk (which is the only tool I've seen that doesn't care about
> cylinder boundaries) prints.

s/is/was/, hehe.  It doesn't have to do anything interesting with
partitions.

>   What is the issue here, exactly?  I can imagine that the structure of some
> loop might make it easier to be sure that code was bugless for
> cylinder-aligned partitions, or something...  Or is it just the check itself?
> Are there any non-destructive ways that I can help in testing or finishing
> the implementation of support for non-cylinder-aligned partitions?  (I'm
> willing to write code, if someone else can test it...)

The problem is metadata allocation.  You need to allocate it in a
sensible
place, which won't overlap with other partitions.

It isn't much work to have the same thing working with 1.4.x.  Just some
more fun with the constraint solver, hehe...

Andrew Clausen