Does Haiku support setting volume/disk flags?

apgreimann · May 23, 2021, 12:27am

I know I’ve asked about direct image booting lately and dwell click (and btw thank you for the great responses!) but I had one more question…

Does Haiku support setting flags for disks like parted/GParted? Like where I can set boot, esp for a volume with ‘set 2 esp’ in parted for example? Reason I ask is because if I actually can adapt Haiku to boot the way I need it to, I still have to pull out a live Linux just to set the disk flags. And I’d rather have Haiku do it. So asking the devs and IT sort here, can Haiku could do this through a text based tool I don’t yet know of or something like a package I’m missing? Thanks!

extrowerk · May 23, 2021, 4:55am

Use the source, Luke!

github.com

haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/sys-apps/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-1.0.4.recipe

SUMMARY="Text-mode tools for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks"
DESCRIPTION="GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts \
programs) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools loosely modeled on Linux \
fdisk. The gdisk, cgdisk and sgdisk programs work on Globally Unique \
Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on Master Boot \
Record (MBR) partition tables, but may also be used on MBR disks to convert \
them to GPT. The fixparts program repairs certain types of damage to MBR disks \
and enables changing partition types from primary to logical and vice-versa."
HOMEPAGE="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/"
COPYRIGHT="2013-2018 Rod Smith"
LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
REVISION="3"
SOURCE_URI="https://downloads.sf.net/gptfdisk/gptfdisk-$portVersion.tar.gz"
CHECKSUM_SHA256="b663391a6876f19a3cd901d862423a16e2b5ceaa2f4a3b9bb681e64b9c7ba78d"
PATCHES="gptfdisk-$portVersion.patchset"

ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"

commandSuffix=$secondaryArchSuffix

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I don’t know if they can work with flags tho.

apgreimann · May 23, 2021, 9:16am

Thanks @extrowerk, I’ll take a look