Partition type getset enables modifying and getting the type
of a give libfdisk partition.
The type of a partition is defined using PartType, which
can only be instanced via label specific functions
get_parttype_from_string or get_parttype_from_code.
For example, to set the type of a new partitions to 'EFI System':
>>> import fdisk
>>> pa = fdisk.Partition()
>>> pa.type
>>> cxt = fdisk.Context('./disk.bin', readonly=False)
>>> cxt.create_disklabel('gpt')
>>> efitype = cxt.label.get_parttype_from_string("c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b")
>>> pa.type = efitype
Following the previous example, getting its current partition type:
>>> pa.type
<libfdisk.PartType object at 0x7f2f0a9a12d0, name=EFI System>
This method wraps fdisk_add_partition. Allows modifying in-memory
partition table of a given context.
Remember that changes need to be written to disk using the
relevant fdisk_write_disklabel function wrapper.
Allows changing in-memory partno field of a Partition instance:
>>> import fdisk
>>> pa = fdisk.Partition()
>>> pa.partno = 3
>>> pa
<libfdisk.Partition object at 0x7f4603a38f30, partno=3>
If partno is unset repr shows 'None':
>>> import fdisk
>>> pa = fdisk.Partition()
>>> pa
<libfdisk.Partition object at 0x7f86c4338f30, partno=None>
Undefined values in libfdisk should map to None type in Python.
Py_BuildValue("%d", -1); is also incorrectly formatted and raises an
error when executed.
Adds wrappers for following label related functions from libfdisk:
- fdisk_create_disklabel
- fdisk_write_disklabel
These functions are declared as methods of a Context python object.
Renames 'cval' to 'szunit' for better readability. This variable is used
to store the size_unit constant that is going to be set using
fdisk_set_size_unit.
fdisk_assign_device() contains 'readonly' parameter to indicate how to
open the device.
Assigned device 'readonly' must be false (0) in order to write in-memory
changes to it.
Call Partition_AddModuleObject when initializing the python module.
Fixes bug when using the Partition class but the class has not
been added to the module via Py_TypeReady.
A common error was the type not being ready (missing attributes):
>>> for pa in cxt.parts:
... print(pa.partno)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
AttributeError: 'libfdisk.Partition' object has no attribute 'partno'
Jose M. Guisado
Jose M. Guisado Gomez