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#5 Update web page to mention availability in MacPorts

2022-03-19T20:04:14.508000Z

Well, without the period at the end: https://ports.macports.org/port/disktype

Update web page to mention availability in MacPorts

2022-03-19T20:03:19.458000Z

The disktype web page says:

If you want to build packages for your favourite distribution, please go ahead and let me know so I can list them here.

disktype can be installed with MacPorts. A URL you could list for this is https://ports.macports.org/port/disktype.

Reports DVD as CD-ROM

2013-01-24T02:13:30Z

disktype reports a DVD-R as a CD-ROM:

# disktype /dev/cdrom

--- /dev/cdrom
Block device, size 4.376 GiB (4698439680 bytes)
CD-ROM, 1 track, CDDB disk ID 02083401
Track 1: Data track, 307.8 MiB (322701312 bytes)
ISO9660 file system
Volume name "Debian 4.0 r0 i386 Bin-1"
Application "MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING"
Data size 4.376 GiB (4698417152 bytes, 2294149 blocks of 2 KiB)
El Torito boot record, catalog at 5872
Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 5873, preloads 2 KiB
Platform 0x00 (x86), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
ISOLINUX boot loader
Joliet extension, volume name "Debian 4.0 r0 i3"

disktype incorrectly reports information for 4K-sector disks

2012-11-09T13:39:06Z

I have a disk with 4KB physical sectors. (It's a 3TB Seagate external USB drive. The SATA<->USB bridge in the drive "fakes" 4KB physical sectors, so as far as the computer is concerned it actually has 4096-byte sectors.)

While disktype can print the partition layout of that disk, it incorrectly reports the size of the partitions, and that the partitions are blank. Perhaps that's because when reading data from the partitions, it assumes the sector size is 512 bytes, so reads from the wrong place?

Here's some example output. Note that the initial block device size is reported correctly. But the partition sizes are wrong and neither partition is blank.

# disktype /dev/sdc

--- /dev/sdc
Block device, size 2.729 TiB (3000592973824 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 12.21 GiB (13107298816 bytes, 25600193 sectors from 63)
Type 0x07 (HPFS/NTFS)
First 220.5 KiB (225792 bytes) are blank
Partition 2: 337.1 GiB (361966731264 bytes, 706966272 sectors from 25600256)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Blank disk/medium

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.6 GB, 3000592973824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 45600 cylinders, total 732566644 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00056e11

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 25600255 102400772 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdc2 25600256 732566527 2827865088 83 Linux

Ext4 patch is broken

2010-06-20T02:33:39Z

I just checked your latest SVN, the Ext4 patch is still broken. You need to take it out and use the Ext4 patch from Pardus instead. I reported this in my blog back in August 2009:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01006
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01009

Note that my source repository
http://bkhome.org/sources/alphabetical/d/
has username: pu$pp$y password: li$nu$x (take out the $ chars)

Regards,
Barry Kauler

displayed volume name truncated

2007-12-27T15:28:57Z

Volume name on the Mac OSX 10.4.11 desktop is "Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik"

Problem: disktype 9 displays truncated volume names:

--- /dev/rdisk5
Character device, size 1.882 GiB (2020966400 bytes)
UDF file system
Sector size 2048 bytes
Volume name "Charlie und die Schokoladenfab"
UDF version 1.02
ISO9660 file system
Volume name "CHARLIE_UND_DIE_SCHOKOLADENFABR"
Application "TOAST ISO 9660 BUILDER COPYRIGHT (C) 1997-2005 SONIC, INC. - HAVE A NICE DAY"
Data size 1.882 GiB (2020966400 bytes, 986800 blocks of 2 KiB)
Joliet extension, volume name "Charlie und die"