[parted-devel] marking a filesystem ID with parted

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/11/2010 11:45 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> In that case, use parted's mkpart sub-command rather than mkfs
> mkpart lets you set the ID, but unlike mkfs, does not try to
> create a file system.
> 

Unfortunately parted doesn't let you move or resize a partition where it
doesn't understand the filesystem, even though many filesystems have
their own resizing tools and sometimes even allow online resizing.

	-hpa