[Libguestfs] Change partition type
Marcos Amorim
marcos.amorim at mandic.net.br
Tue Sep 30 09:50:41 UTC 2014
Hi Richard,
Thanks, perfect :-)
Regards,
Marcos Amorim
Em Sep 30, 2014, à(s) 5:01, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at 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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