Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > To fix this issue, I'd need to expose a new flag through the parted i/f,
> > so you could "set palo on", or similar. For msdos tables it would know
>
> Adding a flag is almost trivial to do, no ?
Sure, it was when I added hp_service, anyway.
> > that meant to set type=f0. For other partition table types it would
> > have no effect. Alternatively I could introduce a new command
> > completely for setting a partition table 'type' to some user-specified
> > hex value. But what would that do for non-msdos tables? Having an
> > interface where you can type in 32 byte GUIDs seems silly to me.
>
> Notice that libparted already knows how to do that, but does it only
> when writing filesystem. There is no way currently to tell libparted to
> set a given partition type, and use another tool to create the
> filesystem. I have also been playing with the thought of adding some
> kind of attribute setting for partitions, which could accept, in
> addition to boolean flags, also other kind of values (which are needed
> to set the filesystem block type on amiga partition/filesystems for
> example, as well as the boot priority).
Sounds good, parted does need some feature like that, IMHO.
> > As to why I havn't done anything about this.. there really hasn't been
> > any incentive as we have cfdisk on hppa which works fine and has a nice
> > easy to understand interface. If d-i ends up dictating that I have to
> > use parted, or eventually presents a nicer interface to parted than its
> > current cli one, then it'll be worth worrying about.
>
> Well, libparted is not only used by parted proper, but also by a bunch
> of other tools in d-i.
Yes, and having the auto-partitioner understand to create an f0
partition for hppa, and a small efi boot partition for ia64, etc, would
be very nice. I just havn't had chance to look at that yet.
Richard
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