question about disk_config & partition types

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu May 2 13:50:57 CEST 2019


>>>>> On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:19:31 +0000, Matteo Guglielmi <Matteo.Guglielmi at dalco.ch> said:

    > disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios fstabkey:uuid bootable:1
    > primary /boot  1G     ext4 defaults createopts="-L boot"
    > primary swap   1G-10G swap sw       createopts="-L swap"
    > primary /     10G-    xfs  defaults createopts="-L root"
    > primary /tmp   1G-50G xfs  defaults createopts="-L tmp"

    > leads to this partitioning layout:

    > Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
    >    1            4096         2101247   1024.0 MiB  EF00  primary  <<<=== why EF00 and not 8300?



    > Any way to correct the partition type of the ext4 (boot) partition?
You are using the gpt-bios disklabel, which wants an EFI partition as
first partition. Change gpt-bios to msdos.

-- 
regards Thomas


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