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* Support the new Linux /home partition GUID
@ 2013-10-26 10:16 andreas.hanke
  2013-10-31  7:55 ` Karel Zak
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: andreas.hanke @ 2013-10-26 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux

systemd has recently introduced a new GUID that is used to auto-mount /home partitions on Linux. [1] This is documented at [2] and [3] and already supported in gdisk [4], but not yet in fdisk. I think this would be a useful addition.

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=1a14a53cfded6e78c6e8dfb73fdff0039971d642
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GUID_Partition_Table&oldid=576037522#Partition_type_GUIDs
[4] http://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/code/ci/0fde58b966f37807260ad0dd8997e3f0c824d39c/

Andreas

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* Re: Support the new Linux /home partition GUID
  2013-10-26 10:16 Support the new Linux /home partition GUID andreas.hanke
@ 2013-10-31  7:55 ` Karel Zak
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Karel Zak @ 2013-10-31  7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andreas.hanke; +Cc: util-linux

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:16:38PM +0200, andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de wrote:
> systemd has recently introduced a new GUID that is used to
> auto-mount /home partitions on Linux. [1] This is documented at [2]
> and [3] and already supported in gdisk [4], but not yet in fdisk. I
> think this would be a useful addition.

 Good point. Added.

    Karel

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