Hi Phil, Brian and others, I'd like to point to systemd errors caused by same names for GPT partitions. Ours all have the name "primary" at the moment causing "journalctl -p err -b0" to show error messages like:
"Dev dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-primary.device appeared twice with different sysfs paths" Also gdisk sets default names like e.g. "Linux filesystem". We should be able to provide GPT partitions without a name. The UEFI spec doesn't define if that name may be empty. It just has to be NULL terminated. Or can you point to a document stating explicitly that the name may not be empty? Should we change the mkpart syntax from mkpart name [fs-type] start end to mkpart [name [fs-type]] start end ? That doesn't provide us a chance to provide the fs-type with empty name. Or should we use a special keyword like this: mkpart \<empty\> [fs-type] start end I prefer the special key word. That just causes /dev/disk/by-partlabel/\x3cempty\x3e to be created in case this feature is not implemented. What are your thoughts? Cheers, Sebastian
