jb <jb.1234abcd@...> writes: > ... To continue with "Dazed and Confused" ... I assume all of them became programmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wknywxfcE5M It would be good to have some rules in field naming (meaning and continuity of their use) in similar (almost identical) displays. All of these entries display the same data types, so it is imperative that they correspond to each other clearly. This will give you an overview of output columns: $ lsblk -h ... # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 37.3G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 17G 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 4.4G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda3 8:3 0 13.4G 0 part / ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part └─sda5 8:5 0 2.4G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom The field TYPE refers to a device type, so it should be renamed to DEVTYPE. This would avoid confusion with other TYPE-like fields, e.g. - cfdisk and fdisk Type means partition type (by Id): Linux, Linux swap, Extended, FAT12, empty, AIX, Dell Utility, etc - parted Type means partition type: primary, extended, logical - partx Type means partition type (a string, a UUID, or hex) # lsblk -o name,fstype,label,parttype,partlabel,mountpoint NAME FSTYPE LABEL PARTTYPE PARTLABEL MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 ext4 0x83 ├─sda2 swap 0x82 [SWAP] ├─sda3 ext4 Arch 0x83 / ├─sda4 0x5 └─sda5 ext4 backup 0x83 sr0 The field LABEL should be renamed to FSLABEL, as there is also a partition label PARTLABEL. # blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="fb838405-607c-4723-9355-47ccbf1eb273" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3db012b3-01" /dev/sda5: LABEL="backup" UUID="4f168c8f-ac1d-4048-ac3f-254fa4392c60" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3db012b3-05" /dev/sda2: UUID="8afa3b49-ae96-4496-9335-1afd62d67097" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="3db012b3-02" /dev/sda3: LABEL="Arch" UUID="d067602d-f15d-49c0-abad-865adab2cc8f" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="3db012b3-03" The fields: LABEL corresponds to LABEL in lsblk display, which is suggested to be renamed to FSLABEL, so this one should be too. TYPE refers to "ext4" and "swap", which suggests a fs type, so it should be renamed to FSTYPE to correspond to lsblk display. PTTYPE refers to "dos" ... here I am at a loss; I assume it means partition type, so it should be renamed to PARTTYPE to correspond to lsblk display; why "dos" ? why for /dev/sda3 only ? jb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
