bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

[Phillip Susi]

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Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is
working?

On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto
> his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard
> disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used.
> 
> Since I already successfully created an Amiga partition table with 
> the help of gparted and libparted, I thought it would be as easy
> as that for ATARI partitions, too.
> 
> Unfortunately, libparted currently doesn't support ATARI partition 
> tables. However, there is a long-standing bug report open which 
> contains the necessary patches for libparted to support that [1].
> 
> Since we're in the process of reviving the m68k port of Debian, I
> guess we should also put efforts into getting this patch finally to
> upstream so people can prepare their ATARI hard disks on their 
> Linux PCs before using them in the ATARI or change partitions once
> Linux is running on their ATARIs.
> 
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239816
> 

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