[parted-devel] map gpt partitions to msdos primary entries

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Tue May 6 09:44:59 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 03, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007 May 14, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Was this patch already applied to parted?
> > Or will parted strictly follow the EFI spec and force a "fixed" msdos
> > partition table.
> >
> > Btw, I dont have time to work on this feature anymore.
> >
> >> This patch adds a new 'set X map_gpt_to_msdos Y' function.
> >> Using it will break the EFI spec (I cant verify it because the EFI spec
> >> is not free).
> ...
> 
> Hi Olaf,
> 
> Almost a year ago, I requested test case additions (would have
> been nice, but not required) and some minor changes to your patch:
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1615
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1616
> 
> but it looks like you never replied to either message.

As I said, I dont have time nor the hardware to work on this anymore.



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