[PATCH] Fix to fdisk command

Juan Perez-Sanchez <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Dec 2014 23:02:17 -0600

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-8086
Message-ID	<CAD6VGubt-SBCwHEhvnWiJyvf1pXEicAa4WH0WDiLbbKMDSEqEQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

   Disk partitions created with ELKS fdisk are not recognized by the
ELKS kernel because they lack a signature. This patch fixes the problem.

Greetings,

Juan

elksfdisk.patch (text/x-patch, 694 B)

diff -Nur elkscmd.orig/disk_utils/fdisk.c elkscmd/disk_utils/fdisk.c
--- elkscmd.orig/disk_utils/fdisk.c	2014-11-27 10:53:27.000000000 -0600
+++ elkscmd/disk_utils/fdisk.c	2014-12-07 22:49:38.609092220 -0600
@@ -314,12 +314,15 @@
 
     if (lseek(pFd,0L,SEEK_SET)!=0)
 	printf("ERROR!  Cannot seek to offset 0.\n");
-    else
+    else {
+        partitiontable[510] = 0x55;
+        partitiontable[511] = 0xAA;
 	if ((i=write(pFd,partitiontable,512))!=512) {
 	    printf("ERROR!  Only wrote %d of 512 bytes to the partition table.\n",i);
 	    printf("        Table possibly corrupted.\n");
 	} else
 	    printf("Successfully wrote %d bytes to %s\n",i,dev);
+    }
     fflush(stdout);
 }