RE: search by PARTUUID

[Urs Ritzmann]

Hi Matt

> I wrote a patch a while ago for this. I ended up creating an add-on command, 
> that uses the partition UUID/GUID, to search (--pt-uuid) and
> an accompanying module search.pt_uuid. These two commands mirror the search 
> --fs-uuid and search.fs_uuid where given a uuid it will
> return the device. When given a disk/partition UUID/GUID that corresponds to 
> a disk that is either a biosdisk or efidisk, or a partition with
> a partmap name of either "msdos" or "gpt" on one of the previous disks it 
> will return that device. I checked it against the master and it
> applied cleanly. I can post it in a day.

That's exactly what I'm looking for. I appreciate if you can post the patches. 
Did you try to upstream them?

Many Thanks
Urs


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Freitag, 13. April 2018 07:33
> To: address@hidden; Ritzmann Urs
> Subject: Re: search by PARTUUID
> 
> I wrote a patch a while ago for this. I ended up creating an add-on command, 
> that uses the partition UUID/GUID, to search (--pt-uuid) and
> an accompanying module search.pt_uuid. These two commands mirror the search 
> --fs-uuid and search.fs_uuid where given a uuid it will
> return the device. When given a disk/partition UUID/GUID that corresponds to 
> a disk that is either a biosdisk or efidisk, or a partition with
> a partmap name of either "msdos" or "gpt" on one of the previous disks it 
> will return that device. I checked it against the master and it
> applied cleanly. I can post it in a day.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Matt
>