On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 12:17:54PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > As I understand the code there is no way to set or force a specific > signature, so it always is a random value. > > Why is a random value needed?
Because when you have multiple disks in the system you want to be able to differentiate between them. > Wouldn't it be better to create reproducible output by default? No, not for 99% of the use cases. > Probably there are more places (GUID in filesystem and such), so > probably it makes no sense to write a patch for "mklabel msdos", what > do you think? Right, GPT also has GUIDs. > Are are alternative approachs to my usecase (creating reproducible > binaries) -- or is this considered "wrong"? I don't think it is something parted should be doing. If you have a special use case like reproducible disk images then you should write a utility to remove the unique parts. -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted
