drakx/perl-install/fs/type.pm, branch 18.15

Set fs_type to '' for BIOS boot and Empty partitions.

2017-02-25T11:39:49+00:00

This prevents misreporting of the partition type in diskdrake if they
located on top of an old partition that contained a valid file system.

Don't treat Empty or BIOS_GRUB partitions as free space (mga#20074).

2017-02-25T11:31:23+00:00

The subroutine isEmpty() is used to identify free space on the disk
(not DOS "Empty" partitions). Because we use a string to flag Empty
and BIOS_GRUB partitions, rather than a numeric value, the numeric
equality operator gives false positives.

Preserve DOS "Empty" partitions instead of treating them as free space (mga#20074).

2017-02-25T11:31:16+00:00

To minimise the changes this close to mga6 release (and until we fix
the bug in partition auto-allocation that mistakenly creates BIOS boot
partitions non-GPT disks), reuse the BIOS_GRUB flag for flagging Empty
partitions, as the real partition ID (0x00) is used to flag free space.

(isFormatable) introduce it

2016-11-15T07:34:45+00:00

we could have exported cannotBeMountable() but it's cleaner to export
another isFoobar() function

simplify

2016-10-16T09:18:52+00:00

BIOS boot partition cannot be mounted

2016-07-11T16:00:07+00:00

fix inverted test

2016-07-05T07:45:47+00:00

factorize bad block checks

2016-07-04T14:46:00+00:00

also enable bad blocks checking on JFS (was in one place but not in
other and indeed mkfs.jfs does support it)

perl_checker cleanup

2016-07-04T14:43:43+00:00

fix being able to create vfat on UEFI (mga#15698)

2016-06-30T14:29:49+00:00

and explain the purpose of the uniq_() call
see commit 56b573476e2ea63a509ab2f8ec0683397ae7c85e

Rationale: use_pt_type() now returns 0 for common disks (eg: GPT ones)
Under GPT+UEFI, we've 2 important "FS" having vfag as the real FS:
ESP & FAT32