KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Apart from changing the default GUID in libparted and gdisk, I > also think the kernel devs should be notified of this change. > Specifically it should be changed at > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=fs/partitions/efi.h;hb=HEAD > . > > I think PARTITION_SYSTEM_GUID should be renamed to > PARTITION_UEFI_SYSTEM_GUID , PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID to > PARTITION_MSFT_BASIC_DATA_GUID , and define the new > PARTITION_LINUX_BASIC_DATA_GUID . I could'nt find my way through LKML > on how to post this. As of now these GUIDs are not used anywhere else > in the source code (I confirmed it using 'git grep <GUID_NAME>') so I > think its safer to change it now. > > Also I don't understand why the kernel devs named the source files > fs/partitions/efi.{h,c} instead of fs/partitions/gpt.{h,c} . Although > GPT is part of UEFI spec, UEFI is not required to use GPT. > > Can one of the parted devs take htis up in LKML. I couldn't find my > way through how to post this on LKML except warnings that it is a > high-volume ML. Thanks in advance.
Thanks, but although the kernel defines PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID, it does not use it. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
