[parted-devel] [PATCH] Synchronise MBR tables with GPT

[Olaf Hering]

On Mon, Mar 05, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Mm. On this hardware, I don't think it actually matters in any real way, 
> but this is really a matter of coming up with a good way of mapping GPT
> identifiers to MBR ones. 

My idea of mapping up to 3 GPT partitions as primary msdos partitions
was to introduce a new 'set' option. Something like

  parted /dev/hda set <gpt_partition> gpt_to_msdos <msdos_partition> <msdos_type>

But I did not have time yet to actually look at the involved code.
 From what I have seen up to now, it all has to be primary.
And there is one fake (?) GPT partition #1 in any case.
And parted 1.7 will wipe any existing msdos partition table entries on write.