On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 18:55, Patrick Devine wrote:
> I've added a file system before to 7.x by using libparted, but I'm
> wondering if there's an easier way of changing code only in fsset.py so as
> to not have to go to all of the trouble. I really don't need to format
> the device or anything like that, just partition it with a particular
> partition id type.
[snip]
> Normally I'd set self.partedFileSystemType to
> parted.file_system_type_get("test") or whatever I'd set up in libparted,
> but shouldn't there be a way of just setting it to "0xff" or whatever?
parted doesn't really deal in the idea of a "partition id" as is
commonly used to identify filesystems on MS-DOS partition tables.
Instead, it actually sniffs the data of the filesystem to determine what
the fstype is.
There's not really a way exported from libparted (and thus, in the
bindings) to set just a partition id. If you really want to do it, you
can look at the RHEL3/Fedora Core 1/rawhide anaconda at the
prepbootFilesystem class. It works, but is definitely a hack :)
Cheers,
Jeremy
