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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: 63 sectors
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:18:54 -0700
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Ian Kirk wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
>> - add a partitioning tool (or option to qemu-img) to format the disk, placing
>> the first partition on the fourth cylinder, aligning it.  tell the users not
>> to wipe the disks out but instead install to one of the existing parititions
> 
> I thought that updating qemu-img to have quasi-fdisk functionality was a
> good idea myself. Is there a respected libfdisk.so thing that could be
> used to abstract most of the work ?

libparted, although I wouldn't call it "respectable".

Writing a partition table to an otherwise empty disk is actually dirt 
simple.

	-hpa