[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 3/10] Don't stop at APPLE_VOID partition

Natalia Portillo claunia at claunia.com
Wed Aug 24 03:36:56 CEST 2011


El 15/08/2011, a las 13:14, Mark Cave-Ayland escribió:

> On 10/08/11 23:11, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> 
>> APPLE_VOID partition is just a partition entry holder, so you don't have
>> to resize the partition table but it occupies no space on disk.
>> APPLE_FREE however, indicates free space on disk.
>> 
>> This is, if my memory don't fail, on Inside Macintosh books, Volume 2 or 4.
>> 
>> Sorry no link I have the books in paper :p
> 
> Again, in this case I think this would be fine with an updated commit comment pointing towards these references.
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> P.S. Natalia - am I right in thinking from the comments that you are William's GSOC mentor?

Btw I don't check this ML daily.

Yeeeeeeeeees I'm William's mentor.

(And I have my own HFS driver so I know about it :p)

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