[parted-devel] Custom partition GUID/ID.

[dE]

On 11/05/14 04:29, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:25:59PM +0530, dE wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Currently it appears the parted program does not have the ability to
>> change/create partitions with custom ID (MSDOS) and GUID (gpt). Is there any
>> way to do so?
>>
>> And in case the ID/GUID is something that the parted program does not
>> recognize, the Flags section of the print command is blanked out.
>>
>> I would suggest that it shows the GUID or the HEX code of the partition's
>> ID.
>>
>> Also the list of predefined GUID and IDs are very limited.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
> I looked into doing this a few months back. The way that parted is
> written means that doing something like this would result in fairly
> extensive changes to the codebase for a feature that really isn't
> needed.
>
> I am planning on fixing individual partition print though, and I think
> it would be useful to include the exact GUID  in that output.
>

Yeah, at least that should be implemented (to avoid confusion between 
fdisk and parted output).

And as Philip pointed out, we don't really need custom GUID or partition ID.