Bug 811784

Summary:	parted doesn't recognize the microsoft reserved partition type 0x0C01
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	joshua
Component:	parted	Assignee:	Brian Lane <bcl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description joshua 2012-04-12 01:03:56 UTC

Description of problem:

gdisk enables you to enter any arbitrary GPT partition type 0x0C01.

parted doesn't.  If you need to partition and leave space for the microsoft reserved partition, how do you do this with parted?

Comment 1 joshua 2012-04-12 15:20:44 UTC

(parted) help mkpart
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition

	PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended
        FS-TYPE is one of: ext4, ext3, ext2, fat32, fat16, hfsx, hfs+, hfs, jfs,
        swsusp, linux-swap(v1), linux-swap(v0), ntfs, reiserfs, hp-ufs, sun-ufs,
        xfs, apfs2, apfs1, asfs, amufs5, amufs4, amufs3, amufs2, amufs1, amufs0,
        amufs, affs7, affs6, affs5, affs4, affs3, affs2, affs1, affs0,
        linux-swap, linux-swap(new), linux-swap(old)
        START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%.  Negative values
        count from the end of the disk.  For example, -1s specifies exactly the
        last sector.
        
        'mkpart' makes a partition without creating a new file system on the
        partition.  FS-TYPE may be specified to set an appropriate partition
        ID.



If parted is going to be the reason gdisk doesn't make it into the Anaconda installer and rescue image, could we please get basic functionality added to parted to make it usable?  We need *something* in the install/rescue image that understands the basics of GUID partitioning such that we can work with/around modern-day MS partition types

Comment 2 Brian Lane 2012-06-05 17:58:07 UTC

gdisk is included on the install images.