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Re: [opensuse-project] Handling GPT disk labels
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:45:22 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706281343030.16479@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2007-06-28 at 14:17 +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
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> To properly handle GPT disk labels, we need a tool that can write them
> (parted) and a boot manager that understands them (grub2). Luckily, the
> filesystem limits are a little farther.
>
> Can this be considered for inclusion in 10.3?
Not that simple, IMO. You also need mount tools to be able to read them,
so that mount by label in fstab works. The udev system would have to
display them in /dev/disk/, too.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Thursday 2007-06-28 at 14:17 +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
...
> To properly handle GPT disk labels, we need a tool that can write them
> (parted) and a boot manager that understands them (grub2). Luckily, the
> filesystem limits are a little farther.
>
> Can this be considered for inclusion in 10.3?
Not that simple, IMO. You also need mount tools to be able to read them,
so that mount by label in fstab works. The udev system would have to
display them in /dev/disk/, too.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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