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-mkgpt
-
-A simple tool for creating disk images with a GPT header and including the
-contents of provided partition images.
-
-Compiling:
-
-automake --add-missing		(Run these two commands if building
-autoreconf			directly from git clone)
-
-./configure
-make
-sudo make install
-
-A Visual C++ 2012 project is also provided for Windows builds
-
-
-Options:
-
- -o <output_file> 		Specify output filename
- --sector-size <size>		Size of a sector (defaults to 512)
- --minimum-image-size <size>	Minimum size of the image in sectors
-					(defaults to 2048)
- --disk-guid <guid>		GUID of the entire disk (see GUID format
-					below - defaults to random)
-
- --part	<file> <options>	Begin a partition entry containing the
-					specified image as its data and
-					options as below
-
-
-Partition options
- --name <name>			Set the name of the entry in the GPT
- --type <type>			Set the type of the entry, either a GUID,
-					MBR partition ID _in decimal_ or
-					one of the known paritition types
- --uuid <guid>			Specify the UUID of the partition in the GPT
-					(defaults to a random uuid)
-
-
-
-Known partition types:
-system 	- EFI sytem partition
-bios 	- BIOS boot partition
-FAT types: fat12, fat16, fat16b, fat32, fat16x, fat32x, fat16+, fat32+
-NTFS types: ntfs
-Linux types: linux
-
-
-
-
-GUID format:
-GUIDs/UUIDs should be represented in the canonical representation as per
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Format
-without any surrounding braces.  An example is:
-123E4567-E89B-12D3-A456-426655440000
-
-Optionally, the string 'random' can be used to generate a random GUID.
-