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PartitionType

Partition types as defined by The Discoverable Partitions Specification.

CharacteristicValue
Typeenum

Variants

EFI System Partition

C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

If ESP is not on raid1, Trident will use the first partition of this type found in the Host Configuration.

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueesp

Root partition

x64: 4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueroot

Swap partition

0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueswap

Root verity hash partition

x64: 2c7357ed-ebd2-46d9-aec1-23d437ec2bf5

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueroot-verity

Home partition

933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b844-0e14e2aef915

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuehome

Var partition

4d21b016-b534-45c2-a9fb-5c16e091fd2d

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuevar

Usr partition

x64: 8484680c-9521-48c6-9c11-b0720656f69e

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueusr

Usr-verity hash partition (NOT ENABLED YET!)

x64: 77ff5f63-e7b6-4633-acf4-1565b864c0e6

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valueusr-verity

Tmp partition

7ec6f557-3bc5-4aca-b293-16ef5df639d1

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuetmp

Generic Linux partition

0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuelinux-generic

Server Data partition

3b8f8425-20e0-4f3b-907f-1a25a76f98e8

To use this partition type on the disk with the root volume, make sure to not have /srv symlink present in your root volume filesystem. If you do, remove it before running Trident (e.g. by using MIC).

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuesrv

Extended Boot Loader Partition

bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Valuexbootldr

Other

Use a partition type UUID not covered by the predefined options.

CharacteristicValue
Typestring
Formatuuid