On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 09:43:31PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: > This patch fixes several problems found when trying to do Apple > Partition Map on a 4K-sector iPod. The problems happened because of > unneeded conversion between physical sectors and 512-byte units. > For devices with sector 512 the conversion did no harm, for others it did. > > List of problems (all are gone with the patch): > > * Partition in OS X, connect to Linux, run "parted <dev> print". > "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!" is shown. > Every partition is displayed 8 times (4k/512) bigger its real size. > > * Exec "mktable mac", connect to OS X. > The drive's partitioning scheme is not recognized. > > * mkpart creates partitions 8 times (4k/512) smaller than requested. > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Antonov <[email protected]> > --- > libparted/labels/mac.c | 59 > ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
Do you have any documentation you can reference for this disk label? It looks like the ones linked to in mac.c are gone. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
