[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Discoverable Partitions Spec

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> Heya!
>
> Since yesterday systemd in git can now discover root, /home, /srv and
> swap partitions automatically based on GPT type GUIDs, thus making
> /etc/fstab unnecessary for simple setups.
>
> I have now put together something like a spec describing the logic
> behind that, and what it is good for:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/
>
> It would be good if in the long run OS installers could adopt this and
> use the right partition type GUIDs automatically, to make this discovery
> work. For now however, you need to manually change the GPT type GUIDs of
> your installation if you want to make use of this scheme.

That might not work very well if one tried to dual-boot two systemd
distros… FAQ #1 talks about /usr and /etc, but /etc is almost always
in the root partition, isn't it?

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>