Curtis Gedak wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thank you for the report and detailed reproducer. >> >> This is not surprising, since I have made no effort whatsoever to adjust >> the bit-rotting file-system-specific code in parted to work with >512-byte >> sectors, and the ext[234] type-detecting code is part of that. >> >> Unless it's easy to fix, I would like to eliminate the code that parted >> currently uses for that and to use code from a well-maintained library >> instead, but haven't looked into it at all. >> > > Thanks for the quick response Jim. > > My testing using blkid to detect file systems on devices with a 4096 > byte sector size has proven quite promising. One difference of note > is that blkid does not display an entry for extended partitions.
Do you mean that libblkid does not display a file system type for an msdos extended partition? That makes sense, since the extended partition is just a container for other partitions, and hence has no file system of its own. > Perhaps libblkid might be a candidate if the decision is made to used > a different library for file system detection. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
