[parted-devel] [PATCH 04/14] do not discard bootcode from extended partition

Joel Granados Moreno jgranado at redhat.com
Fri Jun 5 12:14:11 UTC 2009


From: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel at suse.cz>

* libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Do not discard
bootcode from extended partition on msdos label when some of
the logical partitions are changed.

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel at suse.cz>
---
 libparted/labels/dos.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libparted/labels/dos.c b/libparted/labels/dos.c
index f219e7d..4e308fe 100644
--- a/libparted/labels/dos.c
+++ b/libparted/labels/dos.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,8 @@ write_ext_table (const PedDisk* disk,
 
 	lba_offset = ped_disk_extended_partition (disk)->geom.start;
 
-	memset (&table, 0, sizeof (DosRawTable));
+	ped_device_read (disk->dev, &table, sector, 1);
+	memset (&(table.partitions), 0, 4 * sizeof(DosRawPartition));
 	table.magic = PED_CPU_TO_LE16 (MSDOS_MAGIC);
 
 	if (!fill_raw_part (&table.partitions[0], logical, sector))
@@ -1094,7 +1095,8 @@ write_empty_table (const PedDisk* disk, PedSector sector)
 
 	PED_ASSERT (disk != NULL, return 0);
 
-	memset (&table, 0, sizeof (DosRawTable));
+	ped_device_read (disk->dev, &table, sector, 1);
+	memset (&(table.partitions), 0, 4 * sizeof(DosRawPartition));
 	table.magic = PED_CPU_TO_LE16 (MSDOS_MAGIC);
 
 	return ped_device_write (disk->dev, (void*) &table, sector, 1);
-- 
1.6.0.6




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