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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 17.11.2022, 12:04

> Glad to see this is revived.
> I wonder if it can create partitions in size-aligned(4KB/1MB) position,
> besides GPT?
You may align the partitions in any kind you want to, only overlapping partitions are not allowed. The start and end of a partition can be specified sector-exact. But Ranish is currently not supporting you by enforcing a particular alignment, if it is that you were referring to. But such a thing could be implemented relatively easy if demand is existing.

GPT support is sadly not one of my short- to medium-term goals. At least not with the current Ranish code base.

But with the things I learned the last weeks by reading the ranish code ideas are coming into my mind of how a partition manager which supports GPT while retaining DOS compatibility could work. Momentarly Ranish uses its own partitioning scheme in advanced mode and patches MBR on every boot. I see no reason why it should not be possible to replace that custom partitioning scheme with the now-standard GPT.

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