[parted-devel] [PATCH] Properly sync partitions with operating system

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:28:14PM +0100, Petr Uzel wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:01:11PM +0100, Joel Granados Moreno wrote:
> > diff --git a/libparted/labels/gpt.c b/libparted/labels/gpt.c
> > index eea562d..6c9929b 100644
> > --- a/libparted/labels/gpt.c
> > +++ b/libparted/labels/gpt.c
> > @@ -1470,6 +1470,12 @@ gpt_get_max_primary_partition_count (const PedDisk *disk)
> >  	return gpt_disk_data->entry_count;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int
> > +gpt_get_max_partitoin_count(const PedDisk *disk)
> > +{
> > +	return 16;
> > +}
> > +
> 
> Are you sure about this? I think GPT has no such on the number of
> partitions.

In fact GPT by default (and in parted implementation) has 128
partition entry slots.  In theory this can be adjusted upwards at
mklabel time (simply reserve additional blocks into which the entries
will go).

also note s/partitoin/partition/, both here and in mac.c.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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