From 3cf3e2f2afd279dad95082ee81f3f83516024b27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Rigaux Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:26:06 +0000 Subject: no_comment --- perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm (limited to 'perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm') diff --git a/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm b/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d59cea52b --- /dev/null +++ b/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +package partition_table_empty; + +#- 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 qw(:common :system :file); +use partition_table_raw; +use partition_table; +use c; + + +sub read($$) { + my ($hd, $sector) = @_; + my $tmp; + + my $magic = "\0" x 256; + + local *F; partition_table_raw::openit($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, length $magic or die "error reading magic number"; + $tmp eq $magic or die "bad magic number"; + + partition_table_raw::zero_MBR($hd); + + $hd->{primary}{raw}; +} + +1; -- cgit v1.2.1