On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:29:56PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:07, David Zeuthen<david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyway, I believe the long term plan is to teach libblkid about probing > > for partition tables... that's why I never got to clean up the rather > > ugly code that currently does this. > > I think Karel is working on it: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=b946282a5fc0621c95bd3e0c19e4f72359bd731d > > It really belongs into blkid, and as soon as it is available, udev > will provide this information with the default installation. Yes. I'd like to try to export partition labels (e.g. mac partition name) and partition UUIDs (e.g. EFI GUID partition UUID) to mount(8), fsck(8), swapon(8), ... So it will be possible to indicate block devices independently on filesystems. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
