On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:09:59PM +0800, Wang Dong wrote: > Hi, > > I am reading the code of filesystem in parted these days. And I have some > question about this module. > > 1. Parted cannot just initialize filesystem on partition. But there is an > option for the filesystem specifying? Why? > Is this option redundant?
This helps parted decide what partition type to set, nothing else. > > 2. There is a filesystem module in parted. It is. If it is not used to > specified the type of partition filesystem when partitioning. From my > knowledge of the code. All the interfaces just are used to rescue > partitions and disk sanity check (ped_disk_check). > I can not find where is ped_disk_check is called. I just read its > comment, "check the sanity of disk". But how is this function > used? I found no clue of this. If this function is not used, which > means filesystem module is only used for partition rescue. I don't think this code has ever been used internally. It is part of libparted's ABI so there may be external users we don't know about. > > So the filesystem in parted is only used to recognize filesystem types? Or I > missed something? Any comments will be appreciated. Yes. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
