[PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Simon Rettberg
<simon.rettberg at rz.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Now that I needed to get the type codes of GPT partitions in a script I
> decided to add this functionality to busybox fdisk, which had a big
> FIXME in the code and just printed 0700 for every partition (and gave me
> some headache before I realized this).

Unfortunately I don't have GUID partitioned disks.

I looked at these "type codes of GPT partitions" and they seem to be
a figment of imagination of "GPT fdisk" people: they are not stored on disk,
fdisk authors just assigned them to some GUIDs.

How do you find them useful?