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authorKarel Zak2019-08-08 10:34:27 +0200
committerKarel Zak2019-08-08 10:34:27 +0200
commit08474fde6669d89f5b77653ba9d378fc16e19903 (patch)
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parenttests: use subtests for mountpoint(1) (diff)
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libfdisk: (script) support shortcuts in the type= field
The unnamed-field format supports partition type shortcuts: ",1MiB,L' but for named-field format it requires full type: (mbr) "size=1MiB,type=83" (gpt) "size=1MiB,type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4" This patch implements type shortcuts also for named-field format: "size=1MiB,type=L" to make it more user-friendly and unified. Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/837 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils')
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/sfdisk.83
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
index ff54760ca..c7630bb37 100644
--- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
@@ -462,7 +462,8 @@ GPT partition UUID.
GPT partition name.
.TP
.BI type= code
-A hexadecimal number (without 0x) for an MBR partition, or a GUID for a GPT partition.
+A hexadecimal number (without 0x) for an MBR partition, a GUID for a GPT partition,
+or a shortcut as for unnamed-fields format.
For backward compatibility the \fBId=\fR field has the same meaning.
.RE
.RE