[U-Boot] [PATCH] gpt: add part-uuid and part-num subcommands

Andrey Yurovsky yurovsky at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 17:10:22 UTC 2017


Hi Otavio,

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:43 PM, your name <yurovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky at 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 at gmail.com>
>
> Why not use the 'part' cmd? it provides it.

Sorry, I missed the part cmd, it doesn't seem to be documented in doc/
and it's unclear what <dev> means there. I'll investigate and see if I
can use it for what I'm trying to do, it looks like it should work.


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