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From: Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>
Subject: Re: 63 sectors
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:56:13 -0500
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Ian Kirk wrote:
> 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 ?

Exporting textual output and piping that to sfdisk is one approach.