16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
5:52 a.m.
Chris Lalancette wrote:
To support LVM partitioning in oVirt, one of the things we need is the ability to tell what kind of label is currently on a block device. Here, a 'label' is used in the same sense that it is used in parted; namely, it defines which kind of partition table is on the disk, whether it be DOS, LVM2, SUN, BSD, etc. Note that this is different than the partition type; those are things like Linux, FAT16, FAT32, etc.
Updated patch based on jim's feedback. I did not remove the pc98 type; if everyone else thinks it's a good idea, I'll remove it, but it is part of the ABI in some sense. Otherwise, I followed all of jim's suggestions. -- Chris Lalancette