Re: [gentoo-user] GPT partitions

2017-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Bicno wrote: >> The names are suggestive enough, but I have no clue about what does it > >> mean to use 8304 instead of just plain 8300 for /. > > > > The reason is that with efi bootloader the partitions with that GUID in the > GPT table are automatically mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] GPT partitions

2017-01-14 Thread Bicno
> The names are suggestive enough, but I have no clue about what does it > mean to use 8304 instead of just plain 8300 for /. The reason is that with efi bootloader the partitions with that GUID in the GPT table are automatically mounted by systemd-gpt-auto-generator. Here some links: https://w

[gentoo-user] GPT partitions

2017-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm partitioning a HD with gdisk. I usually chose the default partition type (8300 Linux filesystem), except for swap. I just noticed that there are 2 other types of partition that appear relevant: 8302 Linux /home and 8304 Linux x86-64 root (together with 8303 Linux x86 root). The names are sugge