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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:36:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Mike Touloumtzis <miket@bluemug.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.5.28 and partitions
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Hi,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> fprintf(f, "%u %u %u%c", foo, bar, baz, '\0');

Yes, that's crap... However, what about the following partition table 
format:

<size>\0<part1>\n<part2>\n<part...>\n<partn>\0

Size represents the complete size of the partition table. partx defines 
the partitions that we have, part1 starts at
		(size % BLOCK_SIZE			?
		 drive_start+(size/BLOCK_SIZE)		: 
		 drive_start+(SIZE/BLOCK_SIZE)+1)

String encoding is possible, not a requirement...

			Thunder
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