On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:47 AM Otavio Salvador < otavio.salvador@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:43 PM, your name yurovsky@gmail.com wrote:
From: Andrey Yurovsky yurovsky@gmail.com
It is useful to be able to retrieve a partition UUID or number given the partition label, for instance some systems use the partition label to indicate the purpose of the partition (such as "rootfs0" being the 0th root file system in an A/B image scheme).
Add "gpt part-uuid" to retrieve the partition UUID for a given label and "gpt part-num" to retrieve the partition number for a given label along with some documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky yurovsky@gmail.com
Why not use the 'part' cmd? it provides it.
The use case is, given a label, find the UUID and/or the partition number. I see that 'part' can give me the UUID if I knew the partition number, it can print the whole table (but I don't think I can use that output cleanly), and it can list the partition numbers. I don't think I can solve my problem with 'part' as-is unless I have missed something.
If that's the case would it be alright to add these subcommands to 'part'? Thank you again,
-Andrey