Supported short type names for GUID partitions

The following tables list the GUID partition types for which diskimage has a defined short type name.

You can use any of the listed types in a partition declaration by specifying the string in the “Type Name” column as the value of the type_guid partition attribute. For types not listed, you must specify the full GUID.

General

Type Name	GUID	Description
unused	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000	Unused entry
mbr	024DEE41-33E7-11D3-9D69-0008C781F39F	Nested MBR
bios	21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649	BIOS Boot
gpfs	37AFFC90-EF7D-4E96-91C3-2D7AE055B174	IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
lenovo	BFBFAFE7-A34F-448A-9A5B-6213EB736C22	Lenovo Boot Partition
efi	C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B	EFI System Partition (ESP)
iffs	D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593	Intel Fast Flash (iFFS) Partition (Intel Rapid Start)
sony	F4019732-066E-4E12-8273-346C5641494F	Sony Boot Partition

QNX

Type Name	GUID	Description
qnx6	CEF5A9AD-73BC-4601-89F3-CDEEEEE321A1	Power-Safe filesystem (fs-qnx6.so)

Windows

Type Name	GUID	Description
ldmm	5808C8AA-7E8F-42E0-85D2-E1E90434CFB3	Logical Disk Manager (LDM) Metadata
ldmd	AF9B60A0-1431-4F62-BC68-3311714A69AD	Logical Disk Manager Data
msrec	DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC	Windows Recovery Environment
mswin	E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE	Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR)
strgsp	E75CAF8F-F680-4CEE-AFA3-B001E56EFC2D	Storage Spaces Partition
ms	EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7	Microsoft File System

Apple (Mac OS X)

Type Name	GUID	Description
aboot	426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple Boot Partition
hfs	48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple HFS/HFS+
albl	4C616265-6C00-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple Label Partition (Disklabel)
araid	52414944-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple RAID Partition
aoraid	52414944-5F4F-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple RAID Partition, offline
atvr	5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple TV Recovery Partition
acs	53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple Core Storage (Lion FileVault) Partition
aufs	55465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC	Apple UFS
azfs	6A898CC3-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Apple ZFS

Ceph

Type Name	GUID	Description
cedm	45B0969E-9B03-4F30-B4C6-5EC00CEFF106	Ceph dm-crypt Encrypted Journal
cejour	45B0969E-9B03-4F30-B4C6-B4B80CEFF106	Ceph Journal
ceosd	4FBD7E29-9D25-41B8-AFD0-062C0CEFF05D	Ceph OSD
cedmosd	4FBD7E29-9D25-41B8-AFD0-5EC00CEFF05D	Ceph dm-crypt OSD

ChromeOS

Type Name	GUID	Description
chrsrvd	2E0A753D-9E48-43B0-8337-B15192CB1B5E	ChromeOS Future Use
chroot	3CB8E202-3B7E-47DD-8A3C-7FF2A13CFCEC	ChromeOS Rootfs
chkrnl	FE3A2A5D-4F32-41A7-B725-ACCC3285A309	ChromeOS Kernel

FreeBSD

Type Name	GUID	Description
fbdata	516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B	FreeBSD Data Partition
fbswap	516E7CB5-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B	FreeBSD Swap Partition
fbufs	516E7CB6-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B	FreeBSD Unix File System (UFS)
fblvm	516E7CB8-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B	FreeBSD-LVM (Vinum) Volume Manager Partition
fbzfs	516E7CBA-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B	FreeBSD ZFS Partition
fbboot	83BD6B9D-7F41-11DC-BE0B-001560B84F0F	FreeBSD Boot Partition

Haiku

Type Name	GUID	Description
hbfs	42465331-3BA3-10F1-802A-4861696B7521	Haiku BFS

HP-UX

Type Name	GUID	Description
hpuxlvm	75894C1E-3AEB-11D3-B7C1-7B03A0000000	HP-UX-LVM Data Partition
hpuxsvc	E2A1E728-32E3-11D6-A682-7B03A0000000	HP-UX Service Partition

Linux

Type Name	GUID	Description
lnxswap	0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F	Linux Swap Partition
lnxdata	0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4	Linux Filesystem Data
lnxsrv	3B8F8425-20E0-4F3B-907F-1A25A76F98E8	Linux /srv (server data)
dmcrypt	7FFEC5C9-2D00-49B7-8941-3EA10A5586B7	Plain dm-crypt Partition
lnxrsrv	8DA63339-0007-60C0-C436-083AC8230908	Linux Reserved
lnxhome	933AC7E1-2EB4-4F13-B844-0E14E2AEF915	Linux /home Partition (systemd)
lnxraid	A19D880F-05FC-4D3B-A006-743F0F84911E	Linux RAID Partition
lnxluks	CA7D7CCB-63ED-4C53-861C-1742536059CC	Linux LUKS Partition
lnxlvm	E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928	Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

MidnightBSD

Type Name	GUID	Description
mbufs	0394EF8B-237E-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	Unix File System (UFS) Partition
mbdata	85D5E45A-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	Data Partition
mbswap	85D5E45B-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	Swap Partition
mbvin	85D5E45C-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	Vinum volume manager Partition
mbzfs	85D5E45D-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	ZFS Partition
mbboot	85D5E45E-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7	Boot Partition

NetBSD

Type Name	GUID	Description
nbcat	2DB519C4-B10F-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	Concatenated Partition
nbcrypt	2DB519EC-B10F-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	Encrypted Partition
nbswap	49F48D32-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	Swap Partition
nbffs	49F48D5A-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	FFS Partition
nblfs	49F48D82-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	LFS Partition
nbraid	49F48DAA-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648	RAID Partition

OpenBSD

Type Name	GUID	Description
obdata	824CC7A0-36A8-11E3-890A-952519AD3F61	OpenBSD Data Partition

Solaris

Type Name	GUID	Description
sboot	6A82CB45-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Boot Partition
sroot	6A85CF4D-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Root Partition
sswap	6A87C46F-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Swap Partition
susr	6A898CC3-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	/usr Partition
sbkup	6A8B642B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Backup Partition
srsvd	6A8D2AC7-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Reserved Partition
svar	6A8EF2E9-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	/var Partition
shome	6A90BA39-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	/home Partition
altsctr	6A9283A5-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Alternate sector (EFI_ALTSCTR)
srsvd1	6A945A3B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Reserved Partition 1
srsvd2	6A96237F-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Reserved Partition 2
srsvd3	6A9630D1-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Reserved Partition 3
srsvd4	6A980767-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631	Reserved Partition 4