[PATCH] fdisk.c: major whitespace/style cleanup

Michael S. Zick mszick at morethan.org
Sat Feb 25 13:55:54 UTC 2006


On Sat February 25 2006 07:20, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> It's not like 30 seconds with Google can't find the structures it needs to 
> write:
> 
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables-2.html
> http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-partition-boot-sector.htm
> http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition.htm
> 
> The interesting ones for us are the traditional PC one, and possibly BSD disk 
> labels (since Red Hat uses 'em).  The others we can worry about if somebody 
> actually misses them...
> 
Risc hardware is popular in the embedded world, and risc loaders (partitions)
are different since they usually must support a larger boot program.

Similar to what is called a "chain loader".

You might want to pick one or two of the risc partition types out of the
fdisk mess as "keepers" also. (Sun? ???)

I can't guess what might be a good example to keep.

Mike

> Rob



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