On 8/28/2015 4:48 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > I'm working on getting the Fedora ppc64 secondary arch install process > working again for Mac G5 machines. > > As part of this, I'm developing some patches to improve support for > mac (Apple Partition Map) disk volumes to parted and GParted. This > includes support in libparted for: > - A new "map" flag (PED_PARTITION_APPLE_PARTITION_MAP) > - A new "apple_map" filesystem type > > This means GParted see the Apple_partition_map partition as an > "Unknown" filesystem, and prevents users from accidently deleting or > reformatting that partition.
I'm having trouble seeing what these will be used for, could you explain a bit more? Also why do you want to change the way it works? You say that the unknown filesystem makes gparted not let you screw it up, but that's a good thing isn't it? > In discussing this with Brian C. Lane, he suggested I may need to get > a copyright assignment filled in. A search of the list archives send > me to the gnu page which seems to indicate that the project owner (Jim > Meyering ?) needs to send me the doc to complete. Once I have that it > should be straight forward - I write server software at a bank for my > day job, and they have no issues with me contributing to open software > projects. IIRC, you get the form from the GNU legal department and send it back to them. Jim stepped down and Brian and I currently are the maintainers for parted.
