By the way, an identical request was made earlier which did not trigger any further discussion, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-02/msg00009.html.
On 20 April 2017 at 10:01, Sebastian Parschauer <sparscha...@suse.de> wrote: > Hi Phil, Brian and others, > > I'd like to point to systemd errors caused by same names for GPT > partitions. Ours all have the name "primary" at the moment causing > "journalctl -p err -b0" to show error messages like: > > "Dev dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-primary.device appeared twice with > different sysfs paths" > > Also gdisk sets default names like e.g. "Linux filesystem". > > We should be able to provide GPT partitions without a name. The UEFI > spec doesn't define if that name may be empty. It just has to be NULL > terminated. Or can you point to a document stating explicitly that the > name may not be empty? > > Should we change the mkpart syntax from > mkpart name [fs-type] start end > to > mkpart [name [fs-type]] start end > ? > > That doesn't provide us a chance to provide the fs-type with empty name. > > Or should we use a special keyword like this: > mkpart \<empty\> [fs-type] start end > > I prefer the special key word. That just causes > /dev/disk/by-partlabel/\x3cempty\x3e > to be created in case this feature is not implemented. > > What are your thoughts? > > Cheers, > Sebastian >
