From: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GPT writing of unknown partition uuids
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:16:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1507141610310.21273@brickies> (raw)
Hi,
I came to send the previous patch after realizing that the following is a
lossy operation if the GUID type for the partition is not known to sfdisk.
$ img="/tmp/my.img"
$ size="100M"
$ rm -f "$img"
$ truncate --size "$size" "$img"
$ GPT_PREP="9E1A2D38-C612-4316-AA26-8B49521E5A8B"
$ PT1_UUID="7EB5EBCA-1611-431B-9C80-D87300B41B3B"
$ LABEL_UUID="3C5AD185-CFBF-480D-B80C-AD089E073AC9"
$ sfdisk "$img" <<EOF
label: gpt
label-id: $LABEL_UUID
unit: sectors
1 : start=2048, size=16384, type=$GPT_PREP, uuid=$PT1_UUID
EOF
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.
Thoughts?
Scott
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-14 20:16 Scott Moser [this message]
2015-07-15 0:37 ` GPT writing of unknown partition uuids Dale R. Worley
2015-07-15 13:28 ` Scott Moser
2015-07-15 13:42 ` Karel Zak
2015-07-15 14:56 ` Scott Moser
2015-07-15 15:02 ` Karel Zak
2015-07-15 15:09 ` Vadim Kochan
2015-07-15 15:12 ` Vadim Kochan
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