Bug 90845

Summary: Consider porting to libfdisk (instead of gdisk / partman)
Product: udisks Reporter: Andreas Henriksson <andreas>
Component: generalAssignee: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt>
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Priority: medium    
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Description Andreas Henriksson 2015-06-04 12:50:10 UTC 
Instead of calling out and invoking external commands sgdisk and partman, you should be able to do the same things with libfdisk which will give you a proper C API. Since recent versions of util-linux (v2.26) libfdisk is now a public shared library with API stability guarantees. It can handle both old-style MBR layout as well as new-style GPT layout.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/libfdisk-docs/
Comment 1 Andreas Henriksson 2015-06-04 17:02:40 UTC 
on a related note, udisks2 seems to also use sfdisk with the now *deprecated* --change-id commandline option.

Here's the util-linux commit message:

commit 8eab3194ce1737a167812d5e84d83b0dfc253fac
Author: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 15 12:37:52 2014 +0200

    sfdisk: add --parttype
    
    The patch also makes --{id,change-id,print-id} deprecated in favour
    of --parttype. The original --id is too generic option name and the
    --print-id and --change-id are unnecessary and inconsistent with
    another sfdisk options (e.g. we don't have --change-bootable)

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