Re: fdisk: add GPT partition types for plain dm-crypt and LUKS

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

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On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 15:57 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Why?
Sure... some people (including myself) have pointed out arguments in the
thread over at the dm-crypt mailinglist, like:
- for plain dm-crypt it's a "good" way to make it recognisable
- partitioning tools can use it to hint what a partition contains
- and after all, partition types do exist, whether they make sense and
are used or not... and I think it's better to have some standardised
value which people may set (if they want) even if it's nowhere used,..
instead of having them set something which may actually cause issues
even if only in the future.

> Linux doesn't use partition IDs.
Phew... that's not fully true... not even for the kernel which I think
still contains the code to do MD auto assembly with 0.9 superblocks when
some MBR partition type is set...

And there are probably many tools (fdisk ;-) ) out there which some how
use or at least display the types.


> Also isn't plain dm-crypt
> depreciated?
Why should it be?


Cheers,
Chris.

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