From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39789 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750955AbaKXQKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:10:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:10:36 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Phillip Susi Cc: Drake Wilson , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug#770211: LUKS partition types, redux Message-ID: <20141124161036.GB2610@x2.net.home> References: <546D0495.2030803@dasyatidae.net> <201411192224.sAJMOhTi010782@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> <546E1A16.6050102@ubuntu.com> <5472B7E4.4040601@dasyatidae.net> <547341AD.4020702@ubuntu.com> <547342B2.2060509@dasyatidae.net> <54734522.7010807@dasyatidae.net> <547347A1.7080402@ubuntu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <547347A1.7080402@ubuntu.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:58:41AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/24/2014 9:48 AM, Drake Wilson wrote: > > To clarify, that's in the GPT list, not the MBR one. I see that > > the MBR one names 0x83 "Linux", at least. Does that mean that > > {0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4} should also be named "Linux" > > rather than "Linux filesystem"? > > 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. Well, UEFI standard defines only 3 partition type GUIDs, the rest is vendor specific .. so there is huge area for human creativity :-) The initial source for fdisk was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table and extended by stuff from free desktop http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ (Hmm.. someone already added dm-crypt and LUKS specific GUIDs to wikipedia.) > There should just be "Linux" and that's it. That's the only one we > have in parted and it is quite sufficient. and also RAID and LVM ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com