Devlabel 0.36.06 is available here.

* Added sector start point to the UUID of non-partition specific UUIDs. So, for things like swap partitions, now part of the UUID is its start sector on its disk. This means that all UUIDs that devlabel uses are now absolutely unique and so devlabel should be able to handle all interdisk renaming events regardless of the UUID type. Note that if you start moving your partitions around with parted or something similar, devlabel won't like this. The start sectors are not added to the ends of partition uuids.

* A lot of code cleanup because of all unique UUIDs. I got rid of all the code that had to do determing partitions when using disk ids, etc, etc. Much nicer now.

* Got rid of the --partnum option for when adding by UUID (the -u option). This is no longer necessary because of the changes.

* Thanks to David Balazic (david dot balazic at uni-mb dot si) for the sector start idea.

By Gary at 01:50 PM in Linux | Comments (0)