its hard to say without any code to look at. I would suggest to look at what parted/parted.c does and try to mimic that. Post a file or two and we will see what we can find :)
regards ----- "ben scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > hope this is not to far off topic for this list. I tried the #parted > IRC already and received no reply. > > I am writing a program that uses libparted to create and move > partitions and have run into a problem I can't figure out. Lets say I > create three partitions on an MS-DOS disk label with libparted and > then I want to move the middle one. My program calls > ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry() to find out how much space is > available. The problem is that the geometry returned is less than the > real space available, often off by many megabytes. If I create the > original partitions with fdisk or some other program the function > call > returns the correct value, even when I create the partitions at the > *exact* same spot. When I looked at the partition table I noticed > that > there is one diffence I can see. The LBA addresses are the same but > the CHS ones are different. > > As an example linux fdisk reports for a disk: > > 226 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10977 cylinders, total 156301488 > sectors > > and creates this partition: > > start: 63 end: 303407 > 0000447 01 01 00 83 45 3f 15 3f 00 00 00 f1 a0 04 00 00 00 > > While my program creates this partition: > > 0000447 01 01 00 83 e1 3f 12 3f 00 00 00 f1 a0 04 00 00 00 > > Partitions created with gparted seem to work fine too yet it uses > libparted. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? > > Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > parted-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel -- Joel Andres Granados Red Hat / Brno Czech Republic _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
