Checking partition type using parted_server

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hello,

I am on a personal crusade (never-ending, it seems) to implement the 
checks for sparc, ensuring that silo will work properly in the selected 
partitioning scheme. Among other things, I need to check that the disk 
where kernel is installed has a sun disklabel. Unfortunately, I wasn't 
able to find a parted_server function which would return it (the DUMP 
command returns it, but sends it to the output file). One idea (which I 
don't really like) is to parse parted's output. I am thinking of 
implementing a function which would return the partition table (disklabel) 
type in parted_server (GET_DISK_TYPE or something), which would just 
return disk->type->name. Any other ideas?

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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