Re: sfdisk: dump format changed in 2.26

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> New versions seem to be able to use old dumps.

This has been the most important :-)

> A simple script I use here to convert new format to old:
> 
> sed \
>         -e 's/type=/Id=/' \
>         -e '/^label:/d' \
>         -e '/^label-id:/d' \
>         -e '/^device:/d' \
>         #
> 
> From what I could see, "Id" was changed to "type" in the body and
> various extra header lines were added. Al of those changes make the dump
> file unreadable by older versions.
> 
> Is there any intention to support some sort of compatibility through an
> extra option?

I'm not sure if we really need (and want) to provide compatibility in
this way. Maybe we can add the sed command to the man page.

    Karel

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