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| author | alison <alison@web> | 2015-04-05 17:01:50 -0700 |
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| committer | www <iki-www@freedesktop.org> | 2015-04-05 17:01:50 -0700 |
| commit | ea1ffdfe6c175453e2c4580a2f5df8bcccaa099a (patch) | |
| tree | 9cea4eb4d8c2b3524e6e36a02d1afb493c7dbe8a /Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec.mdwn | |
| parent | 2a0a37c7d7effb025c26984ad8a2b72b3cfa7f12 (diff) | |
Improve description of fdisk support for DPS.
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diff --git a/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec.mdwn b/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec.mdwn index 04dcebec..56169341 100644 --- a/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec.mdwn +++ b/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec.mdwn @@ -156,4 +156,4 @@ That all said, it's not expected that generic installers generally stop setting ### What partitioning tools will create a DPS-compliant partition table? -As of util-linux 2.25.2, the fdisk tool provides type codes to create the root, home and swap partitions that the DPS expects, but the gdisk tool (version 0.8.10) and its variants do not support creation of a root filesystem with a matching type code. +As of util-linux 2.25.2, the fdisk tool provides type codes to create the root, home and swap partitions that the DPS expects, but the gdisk tool (version 0.8.10) and its variants do not support creation of a root filesystem with a matching type code. By default, fdisk will create an old-style MBR, not a GPT, so typing 'l' to list partition types will not show the choices that the root partition with the correct GUID. You must first create an empty GPT and then type 'l' in order for the DPS-compliant type codes to be available. |