On Jan 30, 2006, at 22:24, Greg KH wrote:
Oh, an example of it working:
        # vol_id /dev/sda3
        ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
        ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
        ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
        ID_FS_UUID=9d2efd53-6b5a-4f84-86cc-def71269b7ca
        ID_FS_LABEL=
        ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=
        # vol_id -t /dev/sda3
        ext3
        # vol_id -u /dev/sda3
        9d2efd53-6b5a-4f84-86cc-def71269b7ca

That shows filesystem information, but not at all the partition table information. If I look at my mac partition table (this is using the apple-provided tool under OS X, but it's the same using the Linux tool), for example:

hc6524e32:~ kyle$ sudo -H /usr/sbin/pdisk -l /dev/disk1

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk1'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple                                  63 @ 1
2:     Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap                            1600 @ 64
3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux_boot 1048576 @ 1664 (512.0M) 4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux_swap 2097152 @ 1050240 ( 1.0G) 5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux_lvm 241051200 @ 3147392 (114.9G) 6: Apple_Boot eXternal booter 262144 @ 244198592 (128.0M) 7: Apple_RAID Apple_RAID_OfflineV2_Untitled_2 243936432 @ 244460736 (116.3G)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=488397168 (232.9G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0


Now obviously linux_boot, linux_swap, and linux_lvm are not _actually_ Apple_UNIX_SVR2, but that's the type stored in the partition map. They also have partition map labels "linux_*", but they do *not* have ext3 volume labels. In fact, linux_boot is one slice of a RAID1 of 3 drives, linux_swap is one slice of a RAID5 of 3 drives, and linux_lvm is one slice of a RAID5 of 3 drives that alltogether make an LVM PV. If I examine each of those partitions individually, I get a lot of other information that is totally unrelated to that stored in the partition table. It would be nice to be able to change the type of linux_* from Apple_UNIX_SVR2 to Linux_RAID (Max length is 31 characters), and have my userspace tools be able to detect that and do useful things with it and the pmap label.


Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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