Re: GPT name overflow

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I can't remember - did I send you my "named partition types" patch?  It
> adds "useful" names to partition types, like "linux", "swap", "raid",
> etc.

I don't think so.  I think I only got a "replace magic numbers with
#defines for msdos" patch.

So, how does it add "useful" names?  Is it 1-1 with each number?
Is there a different name for each partition table type?

Andrew