Karel Zak wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:17:58AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Robert Millan wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:42:47PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Robert Millan wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> >> In the longer term, we'll probably deprecate >> >> >> it and instead add an interface to set a partition's type independent >> >> >> of mkpart's "type" argument. >> >> > >> >> > I'd like to work on adding that interface. I propose: >> >> > >> >> > # GPT >> >> > $ parted /dev/sda type 1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 >> >> > >> >> > # MSDOS >> >> > $ parted /dev/sda type 1 00 >> >> > >> >> > Is that appropiate? >> >> >> >> Thanks for volunteering. >> >> >> >> Good timing. >> ... >> >> It seems like it'd be useful to be able to extract existing types, >> too, so how about making the string argument optional. >> Then, this would print the type of the first partition: >> >> $ parted /dev/sda part-type 1 > > This reminds me ... > > ... it would be also nice to have a way how set partition UUID. > Currently GPT UUID is always generated. Maybe we will use the UUID > for some userspace operations (DevKits, udev, mount, ...) and then > people will look for a way how to control this identifier. > > (Yes, I know that UUID should be unique, but sometimes is it very > useful to create a new disk layout with the same UUIDs.) > > $ parted /dev/sda part-uuid 89ec2a20-ab3a-4105-b5e8-b141666fbd0c
Yes, that sounds worthwhile, too. While thinking about how to use that, I realized that the uuid-setting command line interface would be slightly more useful if it were to print the old value when setting a new one. Robert, please make part-type print the old one, too, in that case. Thanks! _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
