Parted does not show partition type for EFI GPT disks
Issue
- Parted in RHEL5 does not show the partition type (primary, extended, logical) for EFI GUID Partition Table disks:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
17.4kB 1049kB 1031kB Free Space
1 1049kB 211MB 210MB fat16 boot
- Parted in RHEL6 does show this:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 526MB 526MB primary ext3 boot
4 129GB 500GB 370GB extended
5 129GB 147GB 17.2GB logical linux-swap
6 147GB 157GB 10.7GB logical ext3
- How can we tell what type partitions are in RHEL5?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Storage with GUID Partition Table (EFI GPT)
parted
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