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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2023-07-15 21:38:47 -0600 |
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| committer | Bin Meng <bmeng@tinylab.org> | 2023-07-17 17:12:06 +0800 |
| commit | 125194e6a136f2a3ef49d443f139b44a04e1bb9e (patch) | |
| tree | 3c8948421454cfa9b2f1bfae919aa78fdc02ddfd /doc | |
| parent | b279f5170a807a87a5726bcbeb0bc98937102eee (diff) | |
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part: Allow setting the partition-table type
Some devices have multiple partition types available on the same media.
It is sometimes useful to see these to check that everything is working
correctly.
Provide a way to manually set the partition-table type, avoiding the
auto-detection process.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/usage/cmd/part.rst | 74 |
1 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst b/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst index 8d2a280..8a594aa 100644 --- a/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst +++ b/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Synopis part start <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> part size <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> part number <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> + part set <interface> <dev> <part> <type> part type <interface> <dev>:<part> [varname] part types @@ -82,6 +83,18 @@ part must be specified as partition name. varname a variable to store the current partition number value into +The 'part set' command sets the type of a partition. This is useful when +autodetection fails or does not do the correct thing: + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + type + partition type to use (see 'part types') to check available types + The 'part type' command prints or sets an environment variable to the partition type UUID. interface @@ -147,6 +160,67 @@ Examples => part types Supported partition tables: EFI, AMIGA, DOS, ISO, MAC +This shows looking at a device with multiple partition tables:: + + => virtio scan + => part list virtio 0 + + Partition Map for VirtIO device 0 -- Partition Type: EFI + + Part Start LBA End LBA Name + Attributes + Type GUID + Partition GUID + 1 0x00000040 0x0092b093 "ISO9660" + attrs: 0x1000000000000001 + type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94d8-f629dbd637b2 + 2 0x0092b094 0x0092d7e7 "Appended2" + attrs: 0x0000000000000000 + type: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94db-f629dbd637b2 + 3 0x0092d7e8 0x0092da3f "Gap1" + attrs: 0x1000000000000001 + type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94da-f629dbd637b2 + => ls virtio 0:3 + => part types + Supported partition tables: EFI, DOS, ISO + => part set virtio 0 dos + + Partition Map for VirtIO device 0 -- Partition Type: DOS + + Part Start Sector Num Sectors UUID Type + 1 1 9624191 00000000-01 ee + => part set virtio 0 iso + + Partition Map for VirtIO device 0 -- Partition Type: ISO + + Part Start Sect x Size Type + 1 3020 4 512 U-Boot + 2 9613460 10068 512 U-Boot + => part set virtio 0 efi + + Partition Map for VirtIO device 0 -- Partition Type: EFI + + Part Start LBA End LBA Name + Attributes + Type GUID + Partition GUID + 1 0x00000040 0x0092b093 "ISO9660" + attrs: 0x1000000000000001 + type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94d8-f629dbd637b2 + 2 0x0092b094 0x0092d7e7 "Appended2" + attrs: 0x0000000000000000 + type: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94db-f629dbd637b2 + 3 0x0092d7e8 0x0092da3f "Gap1" + attrs: 0x1000000000000001 + type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 + guid: a0891d7e-b930-4513-94da-f629dbd637b2 + => + Return value ------------ |