[parted-devel] libparted and partition system id

[Jim Meyering]

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?

Not currently.  We're discussing how to add this capability.
A complication is that parted supports many partition table formats.
For starters, we'll deal with GPT, MSDOS and maybe MAC formats.