Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

[Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 10:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Nick!
>
> On 9/26/21 00:49, Nick Black wrote:
> > It supports MBR, GPT, and APM:
> >
> > https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/blob/master/src/ptable.c#L51-L123
> >
> > (sorry for the gmail-style top posting; i can't find your mail in my mbox
> > for whatever reason)
> >
> > Any other partition schemes ought be trivial to add; they've not been added
> > yet
> > simply because I don't have means with which to test them.
>
> So, you are not using libparted then?
>
> > Looking at the "partition types" section of the Linux configuration, I see:
> >  Acorn, AIX, Alpha, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, MSDOS, BSD, Minix, Solaris
> > x86, Unixware,
> >  Windows LDM, SGI, Ultrix, Sun, Karma, EFI/GPT, and SYSV68.
> >
> > Looking at the disk-label code from partman, I see:
> >  gpt, msdos, amiga, atari, mac, sun
> >
> > So the only ones covered by partman and not covered by growlight would be:
> > amiga, atari, sun,
> > and mac (if mac is not the same as APM). I don't see any difficulty in
> > adding these four, so long
> > as there's someone with an Amiga or ATARI who'd be willing to test them
> > out. If there are no such
> > people, is it that important?
>
> Yes, it is important as we're supporting these architectures in Debian Ports
> and I invested quite some time to get Atari partition support added [1],
> for example.
>
> I think it makes little sense to not use libparted as it already supports
> all common and less common partition types and reimplementing everything
> that libparted makes little sense to me.
>
> Adrian

Does libparted support the discoverable partitions spec?

Kind Regards,
Luca Boccassi