Hi, The Discoverable Partitions Specification defines a bunch of GUIDs that allow auto-discovering the mount point of a GPT partition on boot. This for example can be used to boot an image using a dracut or package based initrd without the need of manually defining and maintaining /etc/fstab.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/ I want to add support for this to D-I. I don't see any drawbacks as currently the generic "Linux data partition" GUID is used on every partition (apart from ESP and swap, which are already tagged with DPS- compliant GUIDs), which doesn't tell you anything useful since it's the same everywhere. Tools that can read and use partition types already understand DPS GUIDs (fdisk, gdisk, blkid, etc). This is simple to do with a partman commit.d script. The question is where to ship this script from, are there any preferences? I can add a new partman-dps package, or I can add the script to partman-base for example. There are no questions or templates or anything, it just runs unconditionally if the disk uses GPT and the system is Linux. This is the partman-base MR: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/merge_requests/9 This is the standalone package: https://salsa.debian.org/bluca/partman-dps Any preferences? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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