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Re: GPT name overflow
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: GPT name overflow |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:00:36 +1100 |
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:05:59PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I've been looking at this, and having flags just doesn't cut it for
> representing all of the possible partition types.
Agreed, they are a work-around for a deeper problem.
> For example, LVM, RAID, swap, compaq-diag, dell-diag, msapm-suspend (0x84),
> pheonix-suspend (0xa0), and dell-suspend (0xa1), etc. are all partition
> types*.
Right, except the swap case (it's akin to the "root" flag in most
cases).
However, parted has no way of representing anything other
than file systems (via PedFileSystem). It should. *That* is what
should be fixed, IMHO. However, I don't really have any ideas yet
on how to do this Right.
Andrew
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- Re: GPT name overflow, Andrew Clausen, 2002/03/09
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andreas Dilger, 2002/03/10
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andrew Clausen, 2002/03/10
- Re: GPT name overflow, Richard Hirst, 2002/03/18
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andrew Clausen, 2002/03/19
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andreas Dilger, 2002/03/19
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andrew Clausen, 2002/03/19
- Re: GPT name overflow, Andreas Dilger, 2002/03/19