Bug 1056375

Summary:	fdisk doesn't know about the Freedesktop $BOOT partition type
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Cristian Ciupitu <cristian.ciupitu>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	jonathan, kzak, mluscon
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Description Cristian Ciupitu 2014-01-22 04:29:34 UTC

Description of problem:
fdisk doesn't know about the Freedesktop $BOOT partition type.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.24-2.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fdisk /dev/sdc

Actual results:
/dev/sdc2        788480      2099199   640M unknown

Expected results:
"Freedesktop $BOOT" instead of "unknown"

Additional info:
gdisk output:

   2          788480         2099199   640.0 MiB   EA00  Freedesktop $BOOT

For more details see http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/

Comment 1 Cristian Ciupitu 2014-01-25 18:49:05 UTC

Thanks to explanations of Rod Smith[1], I realized that I'm comparing
apples to oranges and that the columns of fdisk and gdisk are different.
Nevertheless since "Freedesktop $BOOT" has its own GUID, it would still
be nice if fdisk would recognize it.

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056376#c4

Comment 2 Karel Zak 2014-05-07 11:04:57 UTC

I guess you mean the new root, /home, .. etc. GUIDs. It will be supported in the next util-linxu release (already in upstream master branch).