partitioning

Documentation

Overview

Package partitioning allows creation of MBR and GPT partition tables and partitions, DESTROYING ANY EXISTING DATA.

Note that it does *not* support:

• conversion between MBR & GPT,
• resizing existing partitions,
• adding partitions to an existing table,
• specifying gaps,
• etc.

Index

• Constants
• func List(dev string) string
• type Partition
  • func (p Partition) String() string
• type Partitioner
  • func NewGpt(dev string) Partitioner
  • func NewMbr(dev string) Partitioner
  • func NewPTable(dev string) Partitioner

Constants

const (
	Unused partType = iota
	FAT32
	NTFS
	Linux
	LinuxRaid
	ESP
)

Functions

func List

func List(dev string) string

Types

type Partition

type Partition struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func (Partition) String

func (p Partition) String() string

type Partitioner

type Partitioner interface {
	Commit() error                                               //write changes to disk
	Add(sizeMegs uint64, ptype partType, boot bool, name string) //add a partition
}

func NewGpt

func NewGpt(dev string) Partitioner

func NewMbr

func NewMbr(dev string) Partitioner

func NewPTable

func NewPTable(dev string) Partitioner

determines best type of partition table to use, returns a Partitioner to do so