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Re: parted creates linux-swap instead of hfs
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: parted creates linux-swap instead of hfs |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:37:38 -0200 |
Scott Scriven wrote:
> I see what happened, and it makes sense. Is there any way to make parted
> list the partition type, in addition to (or instead of) the filesystem type?
libparted doesn't provide an API for this, because partition types tend
to be highly ambiguous / inaccurate. For example, reiserfs and ext2
tend to use type 0x83 on msdos partition tables.
> I suppose I should write proper Python bindings for libparted, but since I
> haven't had enough time I've just been running the parted binary and parsing
> its output.
Matt Wilson has already written some. Lost the URL... (hint hint)
(Matt: my xchat crashed immediately after you sent the URL... IIRC)
Andrew Clausen