Re: [Gptfdisk-general] Unknown Partition GUID for Acronis Secure Zone in gdisk version 1.0.0

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 10/05/2015 02:09 PM, Jörg Jenderek wrote:
> Hello,
> i used backup software Acronis True Image (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_True_Image)
> 
> This software creates and use an own partition
> called "Acronis Secure Zone" ( see 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_Secure_Zone )
> for storing backup files.
> 
> But when i start gdisk and print the partition table,
> i get lines like:
> Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>    7        27293696       163612671   65.0 GiB    0700  Windows 8.x 52 GB
>    8       174116864       176338943   1.1 GiB     FFFF
>    9       176339787       250067786   35.2 GiB    8300  SUSE 13.1 35 GB
> 
> The detailed information about partition 8 by 'i'-key are:
> Partition GUID code: 0311FC50-01CA-4725-AD77-9ADBB20ACE98 (Unknown)
> Partition unique GUID: BB93ADA1-75CD-437E-96D0-8BBA1B75653C
> First sector: 174116864 (at 83.0 GiB)
> Last sector: 176338943 (at 84.1 GiB)
> Partition size: 2222080 sectors (1.1 GiB)
> Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
> Partition name: ''
> 
> So it would be nice, if future versions of gdisk could recognize partitions
> with GUID 0311FC50-01CA-4725-AD77-9ADBB20ACE98 as "Acronis Secure Zone".

Thanks for reporting this. I take it that Acronis set this up
automatically? I ask because I tried Googling
"0311FC50-01CA-4725-AD77-9ADBB20ACE98" and found no hits, so this
doesn't seem to be documented on any Web-accessible site -- or at least,
if it is, Google hasn't found it yet. I've tentatively added this type
code for the next release; I just want to verify that it's actually in
use "in the wild" before I do the release. Thanks!

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