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<blockquote data-quote="PsyBlade" data-source="post: 4292076" data-attributes="member: 190003"><p>some wii tools can only access the first partition on a drive</p><p>this is a problem if your partitions already are in a different order</p><p>or if you want to create an aditional partition to be first</p><p>most tools to shrink partition leave the free space after the original one too</p><p>copying all the data to change the order is possible but takes a lot of time</p><p></p><p>I would like to try a faster way</p><p></p><p>there are actually two orders to the partitions</p><p>the order in which thier content is stored in on the drive (physical)</p><p>and the order in which the pointers to this content are stored (logical)</p><p>the canonical way is to have both match</p><p></p><p>eg:</p><p>primary partition 1: 0GB - 900GB</p><p>primary partition 2: 900GB - 1000GB</p><p>primary partition 3: unused</p><p>primary partition 4: unused</p><p></p><p>the problem with this is that changing the physical order means reading 1TB and writing 1TB</p><p>using usb that takes a while</p><p>but changing the logical order is done in only 512 Bytes (!)</p><p></p><p>the idea is to stray from the canonical way and only change the logical order and leave the physical as it is</p><p>in most cases this should work and have the order appear different</p><p>only partitioning tools might get confused (really bad ones) or feel obliged to "fix" this (but good ones should ask)</p><p></p><p>eg:</p><p>primary partition 1: 900GB - 1000GB</p><p>primary partition 2: 0GB - 900GB</p><p>primary partition 3: unused</p><p>primary partition 4: unused</p><p></p><p>I would like some knowledgeable people to try this aproach and discuss their findings</p><p></p><p>I wrote a little tool to demonstrate this</p><p>if you can't make heads or tails of what to do with this keep away for now</p><p>the code appears to work but curently has almost no saveguards, is really ugly and was only barely tested</p><p>IF it works reasonably well I will apply more polish</p><p></p><p>http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~t_schmid/partorder/</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PsyBlade, post: 4292076, member: 190003"] some wii tools can only access the first partition on a drive this is a problem if your partitions already are in a different order or if you want to create an aditional partition to be first most tools to shrink partition leave the free space after the original one too copying all the data to change the order is possible but takes a lot of time I would like to try a faster way there are actually two orders to the partitions the order in which thier content is stored in on the drive (physical) and the order in which the pointers to this content are stored (logical) the canonical way is to have both match eg: primary partition 1: 0GB - 900GB primary partition 2: 900GB - 1000GB primary partition 3: unused primary partition 4: unused the problem with this is that changing the physical order means reading 1TB and writing 1TB using usb that takes a while but changing the logical order is done in only 512 Bytes (!) the idea is to stray from the canonical way and only change the logical order and leave the physical as it is in most cases this should work and have the order appear different only partitioning tools might get confused (really bad ones) or feel obliged to "fix" this (but good ones should ask) eg: primary partition 1: 900GB - 1000GB primary partition 2: 0GB - 900GB primary partition 3: unused primary partition 4: unused I would like some knowledgeable people to try this aproach and discuss their findings I wrote a little tool to demonstrate this if you can't make heads or tails of what to do with this keep away for now the code appears to work but curently has almost no saveguards, is really ugly and was only barely tested IF it works reasonably well I will apply more polish http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~t_schmid/partorder/ [/QUOTE]
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