Re: [PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

2016-11-28 Thread James Bowlin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:38 AM, Mattias Schlenker said: > Use GPT on any UEFI system as boot media, and only use MBR on > drives with less than 2TB that should boot windows on BIOS (64 > bit windows 7 and up should be possible to boot from GPT on > BIOS - I did not yet test). Aside from size

Re: [PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

2016-11-28 Thread Mattias Schlenker
Am 28.11.2016 um 20:53 schrieb Tito: On 11/28/2016 05:42 PM, Simon Rettberg wrote: 27.11.2016, 20:24 +0200, Denys Vlasenko : However, I still don't understand how do you use them, apart from seeing them on output. That's pretty much it. Following the same line

Re: [PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

2016-11-28 Thread Tito
On 11/28/2016 05:42 PM, Simon Rettberg wrote: 27.11.2016, 20:24 +0200, Denys Vlasenko : However, I still don't understand how do you use them, apart from seeing them on output. That's pretty much it. Following the same line of argument, you could ask why we have

Re: [PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

2016-11-28 Thread Simon Rettberg
27.11.2016, 20:24 +0200, Denys Vlasenko : > However, I still don't understand how do you use them, > apart from seeing them on output. > That's pretty much it. Following the same line of argument, you could ask why we have this table in fdisk.c that maps the MBR type