[PLUG] Disk partitioning types

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:

> In the interest of being correct and understanding one other.
> LVM is definitely not file system.
> LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager - and it is exactly that.

That's true, Tomas. If you use cfdisk to partition a drive one of the
options is Type. Among those types are Linux Filesystem, Linux Swap, Linux
server data, Linux LVM, and Linux RAID.

The choice apparently facilitesa mounting or other behaviors; I didn't read
the entire Wikipedia article. But, looking at
<https://www.liquisearch.com/guid_partition_table/partition_type_guids> we
read:

Linux:
Linux filesystem data 	0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
RAID partition 	A19D880F-05FC-4D3B-A006-743F0F84911E
Swap partition 	0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partition 	E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928
Reserved 	8DA63339-0007-60C0-C436-083AC8230908
Boot partition 	83BD6B9D-7F41-11DC-BE0B-001560B84F0F
Data partition 	516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B
Swap partition 	516E7CB5-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B

The long string is the GUID for that type.

Stay well,

Rich