[parted-devel] [PATCH v2 0/1] keep GUID specific attributes

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Fri Sep 24 00:18:51 BST 2021


On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 04:29:57PM +0000, Arvin Schnell wrote:
> 
> When modifying a GPT parted clears all GUID specific
> attributes. This happens even when modifying unrelated
> partitions, e.g. adding a new partition. According to the UEFI
> standard these bits must be preserved (see Table 24 of the UEFI
> spec[1]) even when only modifying the other attributes.
> 
> The attached patch solves the problem by having the full
> attributes instead of the two flags hidden and legacy_boot in
> GPTPartitionData and modifying the full attributes directly.

Thanks, merge into master.

Brian

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