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authorThierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.org>2002-07-23 11:08:35 +0000
committerThierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.org>2002-07-23 11:08:35 +0000
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+package partition_table::empty; # $Id$
+
+#- this is a mainly dummy partition table. If we find it's empty, we just call -
+#- zero_MBR which will take care of bless'ing us to the partition table type best
+#- suited
+
+
+use diagnostics;
+use strict;
+use vars qw(@ISA);
+
+@ISA = qw(partition_table::raw);
+
+use common;
+use partition_table::raw;
+use partition_table;
+use c;
+
+
+sub read($$) {
+ my ($hd, $sector) = @_;
+ my $tmp;
+
+ local *F; partition_table::raw::openit($hd, *F) or die "failed to open device";
+ c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, 0) or die "reading of partition in sector $sector failed";
+
+ #- check magic number
+ sysread F, $tmp, 512 or die "error reading magic number on disk $hd->{device}";
+ $tmp eq substr($tmp, 0, 1) x 512 or die "bad magic number on disk $hd->{device}";
+
+ partition_table::raw::zero_MBR($hd);
+
+ $hd->{primary}{raw};
+}
+
+1;