[parted-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add documentation for nonfs partition type

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Wed Sep 30 23:06:59 UTC 2015


---
 NEWS            | 2 ++
 doc/C/parted.8  | 2 +-
 doc/parted.texi | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 96135ed..790e410 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** New Features
 
+  Added new partition type flag, nonfs, to set the type to 0xDA on MS-DOS.
+
   Add resizepart command to resize a partition.  This works even on
   mounted partitions.
 
diff --git a/doc/C/parted.8 b/doc/C/parted.8
index 5304375..b623155 100644
--- a/doc/C/parted.8
+++ b/doc/C/parted.8
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ or an LVM logical volume if necessary.
 .B set \fIpartition\fP \fIflag\fP \fIstate\fP
 Change the state of the \fIflag\fP on \fIpartition\fP to \fIstate\fP.
 Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid", "lvm", "lba",
-"legacy_boot", "irst", "esp" and "palo".
+"legacy_boot", "irst", "esp", "nonfs" and "palo".
 \fIstate\fP should be either "on" or "off".
 .TP
 .B unit \fIunit\fP
diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi
index cb12e8d..1c7e8b6 100644
--- a/doc/parted.texi
+++ b/doc/parted.texi
@@ -861,6 +861,9 @@ partition.
 (MS-DOS, GPT) - this flag identifies a UEFI System Partition. On GPT
 it is an alias for boot.
 
+ at item nonfs
+(MS-DOS) - this flag identifies a non-fs partition.
+
 @item lba
 (MS-DOS) - this flag can be enabled to tell MS DOS, MS Windows 9x and
 MS Windows ME based operating systems to use Linear (LBA) mode.
-- 
2.4.3




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