From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:43:26 +0000 Subject: Re: Can udev match on metadata from the partition table map itself? Message-Id: <20090818234326.GS5752@nb.net.home> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:29:56PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:07, David Zeuthen wrote: > > Anyway, I believe the long term plan is to teach libblkid about probing > > for partition tables... that's why I never got to clean up the rather > > ugly code that currently does this. >=20 > I think Karel is working on it: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dutils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=3Dco= mmit;h=B946282a5fc0621c95bd3e0c19e4f72359bd731d >=20 > It really belongs into blkid, and as soon as it is available, udev > will provide this information with the default installation. Yes. I'd like to try to export partition labels (e.g. mac partition name) and partition UUIDs (e.g. EFI GUID partition UUID) to mount(8), fsck(8), swapon(8), ... So it will be possible to indicate block devices independently on filesystems. Karel --=20 Karel Zak