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From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
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Subject: Re: GPT writing of unknown partition uuids
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:37:38 -0400
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Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com> writes:
> If sfdisk does not know the uuid provided, it silently falls back to
> 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 (Linux filesystem).
> 
> It seems like if the user provided you with a GUID, sfdisk should trust
> them, or at very least exit failure if it refuses to use the provided
> GUID.

Ugh, you're right!  Silent disobedience is pernicious.

Dale