[parted-devel] libparted and partition system id

[Petr Uzel]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:08:44PM -0700, ben wrote:
> Using libparted is there a way to set the system ID of the partition, for 
> instance 0x83 for linux,  without using libparted to actualy write a filesystem 
> to the partition?

As far as I know, this is not possible with vanilla parted. However,
you finally forced me to post here our SUSE patch that 'abuses'
partition flags in (lib)parted for setting partition types. Attaching
version that applies to parted-2.4.


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# parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 type 0x83
# parted -s /dev/sdb print
Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8389kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.8kB  5014kB  4981kB  primary               type=83
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Jim, if I clean (at least the testsuite has to be adapted) the patch,
would you be willing to accept it?

Thanks,

Petr

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Petr Uzel
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