[ros-dev] Some questions about the source tree...

[TwoTailedFox]

Joao, that's the same idea I had for the setup system.

But, what would be really neat, is distinguishing Ext2 from Ext3,
ReiserFS and so on, that all use the 'Linux Native' partition hex
value.

On 11/3/05, João Jerónimo Barata de Oliveira <j_j_b_o_j at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Robert Köpferl wrote:
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> > Be aware that support for more/other partition formats is a matter of
> > the disk dirver. The driver that makes the whole-disk-dev-file into
> > several partition-files/devs
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> I've just noticed that... when I saw some references to a function
> called "IsRecognizedPartition" whose declaration I couldn't find inside
> the setup directory! Clearly it isn't specific to the program but it
> makes part of the kernel or something else...
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> I thought setup discovered the partition type by looking at its hex
> number in the partition table... My idea was making the setup recognise
> more partition types (in order to inform the user of it when in the
> partitioning screen). Then, instead of writing "Type 142", it would
> write "Linux LVM", even having no idea on how LVM works...
> That would be useful (making the setup recognising partition types
> without working with them) because, with "unknown" partitions on the
> disk, users can make confusion and misidentify them, thus making bad
> changes on the disk...
>
> João Jerónimo
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