Re: parted's cp command for FAT32, and LBA/CHS/NTLDR missing woes

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:18:51AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Could you print out the partition table?
> 
> BTW, i think it would be usefull to have new libparted functionality
> to save/restore a partition table. Do you think this could be added
> easily in the future ?

I think it's a fair bit of work... you'd need to write code for
each partition table type.

> I know it is possible to realise such an utility as a libparted using
> program,

I don't think so.  libparted doesn't provide all information that
is stored in the partition table.

> and that it would be necessary to determine a format for the
> partition table values, or something such, but i think it would make
> sense to add it to libparted as a partition table hook.

Agreed.

I'm accepting patches :)

Cheers,
Andrew