Hi Alison,
Lukasz Majewski wrote:
Maybe it would be better to have
gpt flip mmc 0 <optional parameter 'name'>
(By default we have "primary" and "backup")
In that way we could set other names to GPT partitions without the need to modify the code.
I answered:
Another possibility is to support
gpt flip mmc 0 <name 1> <name 2>
where two names are required, with defaults 'primary' and 'backup'. Perhaps I should rework patch 5 that way?
Lukasz responded:
Please correct my understanding if I'm wrong.
You parse GPT partitions to a list and there are only two names possible:
"primary" and "backup".
When we call gpt filp we rename those names ("primary" -> "backup" and the other way).
Ahhh..... so your patch would allow to rename "primary" to <name1> and "backup" to <name2> for all names.
My idea was rather to have a gpt call to set name of a GPT partition....
I can image that somebody would like to change on the fly single GPT partition name (when having/care about 2 partitions for his/her project specific data).
But, I don't know how much effort it would take to implement it (and if others would see it beneficial).
I would propose then two options:
gpt rename mmc 0 <name 1> <name 2>which renames all the 1's to 2's, and
gpt flip mmc 0 <name 1> <name 2>which swaps the two name strings for all partitions where they're found. These two operations together with 'gpt write' then cover all the common use cases I can imagine.
I think that this is enough. Let's wait for other's opinions (if any).
I'm open to any other suggestions, of course. I just posted what I already had to get started.
-- Alison
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Best regards,
Lukasz Majewski
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