#1308 PR merged: parted is also able to recreate ESP partition flag¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

ProBackup-nl opened issue at 2017-04-16 22:00:¶

Therefore report the esp flag too.

jsmeix commented at 2017-04-19 12:16:¶

Could this cause issues on older Linux distributions
where parted does not support the esp flag?

On my SLES10 system "man parted " reads

  set partition flag state
    change the state of the flag on partition to state.
    Flags supported are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
    "raid", "lvm", "lba" and "palo".

On my SLES11 system "man parted " reads

  set partition flag state
    Change the state of the flag on partition to state.
    Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
    "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot" and "palo".

On my SLES12 system "man parted " reads

  set partition flag state
    Change the state of the flag on partition to state.
    Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
    "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot", "irst" and "palo".

ProBackup-nl commented at 2017-05-10 21:01:¶

@jsmeix And which parted versions are yours?
For SLES12 the man output occurs strange to me: it does seem to support irst (Intel Rapid Start Technology) which was introduced together with ESP, according to the GNU Parted release notes at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8042

My parted is version 3.2.

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