Crate mkswap

Create swap files and devices in pure Rust.

This library will construct this header, copied from the Linux kernel:

// Note that this code snippet is licensed GPL-2.0, matching include/linux/swap.h in the Linux Kernel.
union swap_header {
    struct {
        char reserved[PAGE_SIZE - 10];
        char magic[10];                 /* SWAP-SPACE or SWAPSPACE2 */
    } magic;
    struct {
        char            bootbits[1024]; /* Space for disklabel etc. */
        __u32           version;
        __u32           last_page;
        __u32           nr_badpages;
        unsigned char   sws_uuid[16];
        unsigned char   sws_volume[16];
        __u32           padding[117];
        __u32           badpages[1];
    } info;
};

use std::io::Cursor;

use mkswap::SwapWriter;

let mut buffer: Cursor<Vec<u8>> = Cursor::new(vec![0; 40 * 1024]);
let size = SwapWriter::new()
    .label("🔀".into())
    .unwrap()
    .write(&mut buffer)
    .unwrap();

Notes

This library will seek around the file, including back to position 0. If this isn’t desirable, consider use fscommon::StreamSlice or sending a pull request.

Structs

SwapWriter

A builder to construct a swap space.

Enums

Error

General errors that can occur while configuring and writing a swap space.

Traits

WriteSeek

A general wrapper to merge std::io::Write and std::io::Seek.