Re: Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT
Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
>> I have recently wanted a simple utility that would return the partition
>> type of a certain partition, and now it seems we want a simple utility
>> that returns the type of partition table used.
>> I guess someone will have to write those. using libparted for that is OK,
>> but installing parted just to get a disk label is not.
>
> "grub-probe -t partmap" does exactly that, with 104 KiB (-O2) and no other
> dependencies. Do you want an udeb that includes grub-probe?
I'll check how much space it has if striped and -Os...
> Alternatively, could partman write partition table information to debconf so
> that grub-installer can grab it?
I think so.
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