[parted-devel] [PATCH] doc: mention the "bios_grub" flag

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> As the comment says, I expect to deprecate this mechanism for
> partition type setting.
> 
> >From 1422adc7f5c74dda564a1ff9f2169bb0530593c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:34:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention the "bios_grub" flag
> 
> I don't like the idea of documenting this "flag setting" option,
> but it's been in the code for long enough now, and in actual use,
> that I feel obliged.  In the longer term, we'll probably deprecate
> it and instead add an interface to set a partition's type independent
> of mkpart's "type" argument.

I'd also like to point out that the "boot" flag on GPT is terribly confusing,
as it means "EFI System Partition" when in fact we might not even be using
EFI at all.

(I know there are historical reasons for this, but nevertheless it is
confusing today)

-- 
Robert Millan

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