Re: Bug#770211: LUKS partition types, redux

[Drake Wilson <drake@dasyatidae.net>]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Oh boy.  I hadn't noticed that util-linux had added so many silly type
> codes now that it supports GPT.  This mess really needs cleaned up.
> There should just be "Linux" and that's it.

I'd be fine with everything getting merged into a single "Linux" type.

If that happens, would it make sense to get rid of the listings for the
other Linux types in MBR mode too and loosely standardize on all 0x83
types there?  (Or interpret them for existing disklabels, and of course
don't forbid setting them, but remove them from the actively-displayed
list.)

> That's the only one we
> have in parted and it is quite sufficient.

In parted, really?  While I was chasing down the partman-lvm data flow
involved, it seemed to me that it was libparted that was setting flags
based on interpreting the LVM GPT type, which were later getting interpreted;
it wasn't obvious to me where to break the logic chain.  Is that part of
libparted a Debianism, or did you mean parted-the-tool as opposed to
libparted-the-library, or... ?

   ---> Drake Wilson