setting GUIDs
hey,
Is there a userspace command i can use to set the GUID of a GPT partition
under linux? I asked google, but google didn't know, and i didn't see it described in the parted man page.
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Is there a userspace command i can use to set the GUID of a
GPT partition
under linux? I asked google, but google didn't know, and i didn't see it described in the parted man page.
Which GUID? :-)
parted mkpart generates a new GUID for the partition it creates. parted set flag xxxxx sets the partition type GUID to one of: boot, raid (for Linux SW RAID), LVM, or basic data (any file system). If you put a file system or swap on the partition, it gets set to basic data or swap respectively.
That's it. No other support exists to write your own GUIDs to either field of the partition, or to the disk_guid. efibootmgr and parted both know how to parse the table right, so if you need to write your own app you may want to start there.
Thanks,
Matt
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parted mkpart generates a new GUID for the partition it creates. parted set flag xxxxx sets the partition type GUID to one of: boot, raid (for Linux SW RAID), LVM, or basic data (any file system). If you put a file system or swap on the partition, it gets set to basic data or swap respectively.
that's just what i needed - thanks Matt!
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