rereading a partition

2000-12-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
Hi, ive been working on a simple fdisk like program, im stuck trying to workout how to get the program to reread the partition table. In linux there is an ioctl defined as BLKRRPART which works, i found something similar called V_REMOUNT in /include/mach/machine/disk.h, the comment says it

Re: rereading a partition

2000-12-18 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:57:26PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: Hi, ive been working on a simple fdisk like program, im stuck trying to workout how to get the program to reread the partition table. In linux there is an ioctl defined as BLKRRPART which works, i found something similar called

Re: rereading a partition

2000-12-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:56AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: The Hurdish way to solve this problem is in userspace via a translator. A server, let's call it `disk_part', would translate a harddrive based on the partition table possibly creating a hierarchy as follows: /dev/hda --

Scripts for status of Hurd port, apt update

2000-12-18 Thread Jason M. Felice
Neal: I was hacking around with your find_missing_packages.pl and simultaneously trying to learn the debian developer ropes (I've not yet applied, but...). The developers reference section on porting mentions quinn-diff, buildd, and andrea. quinn-diff is sort of like your perl script, except

Re: rereading a partition

2000-12-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:56AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: The Hurdish way to solve this problem is in userspace via a translator. A server, let's call it `disk_part', would translate a harddrive based on the partition table possibly creating a hierarchy as