On 23 April 2014 01:50, Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Nope. But there is Apple's source code which may act as documentation: http://opensource.apple.com/source/IOStorageFamily/IOStorageFamily-172/IOApplePartitionScheme.cpp http://opensource.apple.com/source/IOStorageFamily/IOStorageFamily-172/IOApplePartitionScheme.h Also Linux source code in <linux source tree>/block/partitions/mac.*
