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authorPatrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay73@gmail.com>2015-10-27 11:00:26 +0100
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2015-11-12 15:58:57 -0500
commitb38c108a9833ca2acb568530ebd269760f3925d9 (patch)
tree6c63a6b0de4262236dba612b853f724e10d61500 /doc
parent3526285068598f4e2ddaf19d4bd94f253de06ce9 (diff)
part:efi: add GUID for linux file system data
Previously, Linux used the same GUID for the data partitions as Windows (Basic data partition: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7). This created problems when dual-booting Linux and Windows in UEFI-GPT Setup, so a new GUID (Linux filesystem data: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4) was defined jointly by GPT fdisk and GNU Parted developers. Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay73@gmail.com>
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ More often UUID is displayed as 32 hexadecimal digits, in 5 groups,
separated by hyphens, in the form 8-4-4-4-12 for a total of 36 characters
(32 digits and 4 hyphens)
-For instance, GUID of Linux data partition: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
+For instance, GUID of Basic data partition: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
+and GUID of Linux filesystem data: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
Historically there are 5 methods to generate this number. The oldest one is
combining machine's MAC address and timer (epoch) value.