[parted-devel] Interface to set partition type

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> In the longer term, we'll probably deprecate
> it and instead add an interface to set a partition's type independent
> of mkpart's "type" argument.

I'd like to work on adding that interface.  I propose:

  # GPT
  $ parted /dev/sda type 1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

  # MSDOS
  $ parted /dev/sda type 1 00

Is that appropiate?

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