* Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> [Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 10:01:44PM +0200]:
> I have an idea for a small new feature in setup-storage, and I'm > looking for some feedback to gauge interest. The idea is to generate a > script for each device that can be used to recreate the partition table > after the initial installation, should the need arise. > The use case is pretty simple: being able to replace a failed disk in a > RAID setup. > With an msdos disk label, I just use sfdisk to do this, but I'm not > aware of an equivalent tool for GPT disk labels. Parted unfortunately > doesn't have an option to generate a parted script from an existing > partition table (that I know of, at least). > Now, I can either write a tool that parses parted output to generate a > script using parted commands, or I can add this feature to > setup-storage. > Any thoughts? Lovely idea, I'd appreciate such a feature! Would be nice to have this script available outside of setup-storage as well so it could be used like sfdisk nowadays, though if setup-storage would support the feature as well this would be awesome. :) regards, -mika-
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