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- while here, squash a memory leak It shouldn't be necessary to backup unused partitions, however the partition GUID is created at the time the GPT is created and is never changed. It shouldn't matter if the GUID of an unused partition changes, but there may be some special case where it does. Since it isn't a big deal to record the unused partitions, might as well do it.