[patch] support partiton labels/uuids of common filesystems

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:14:10PM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:59, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > attached is a patch to support labels of msdos, vfat, ext2/3,
> > reiser, jfs, xfs partitions. ntfs is only recognized.
> > 
> > The following properties are set if a valid value is found:
> > 	block.fstype
> > 	block.volume_label
> > 	block.volume.uuid
> > 
> > Plese have a look, if you like it.
> > 
> 
> Very nice! I've applied this; thanks a lot!
> 
> I see that the code is licensed under the GPL which, in principle, is
> okay since HAL is licensed under both the GPL and AFL 2.0, and we
> already got some code that is GPL, though only for the Linux 2.6
> backend. (I don't really want GPL-only code in the generic parts of the
> HAL daemon)

Oh, I've just copied the structs from the GPL'd libblkid. If you think we can
add a additioanl licence in this case, feel free to add it to the volume_id
files. I'm perfectly fine with it.

Kay

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