Re: [Libguestfs] Change partition type

Marcos Amorim
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:50:41 -0000

Hi Richard,

Thanks, perfect :-)


Regards,


Marcos Amorim



Em Sep 30, 2014, à(s) 5:01, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
escreveu:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:15:59PM +0000, Marcos Amorim wrote:
>> Is there any way to change the partition type using python-guestfs?
>>
>> I'm trying to recreate an NTFS partition, but can not change the
>> type to NTFS (7 identifier in frisk)
>>
>> Filesystem from my disk
>> g.list_filesystems()
>> {'/dev/sda1': 'ntfs', '/dev/sda2': 'ntfs’}
>>
>> Fdisk
>> print g.sfdisk_l(device)
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 51200 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
>> Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
0
>>
>>  Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *      1     100     100     102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda2        101   51199   51099   52325376   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
>> /dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
>
> If it's MBR, then you can use g.part_set_mbr_id ("/dev/sda",
2, 7)
>
> For GPT use part_set_gpt_type which is similar but you have to use
> a GUID.
>
> Rich.
>
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