[parted-devel] Partition move function

[Phillip Susi]

On 4/30/2010 11:58 AM, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> ala fdisk t 82 for linux-swap 83 for linux-native
> 
> there is a semantic difference in fdisk and parted.
> parted want to know too much about FS_TYPE where fdisk don't care at all.
> 
> parted require a FS_TYPE
>  fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs"
> 
> fdisk only set a partition type 82 or 83 when speaking for most current x86
> partitions
> So on fdisk, with a type 83, you could later format to ext{2,3,4) or reiserfs.

Yes, this is what I was getting at.  Specify the partition type directly
instead of setting "flags" and then naming the filesystem type.