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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [util-linux] Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Design a Linux partition table format, where a partition descriptor
> has fields start, end, fstype, fslabel, and the whole disk has a vollabel.
> Put it in sector 0-N for an all-Linux disk, and in sectors pointed at
> by a classical DOS-type partition table entry when the disk is shared.

Yes, but for $DEITY sake, let's make it text. Something along the lines of
Linux partition table\n(START,LENGTH,TYPE(,LABEL)?n)*End\0
START: NUMBER
LENGTH: NUMBER
TYPE: [^,\n\0]+
LABEL: [^\n\0]+
NUMBER: <see strtoul(3)>

Will make life much simpler when one needs to recover the bloody thing...

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