[parted-devel] [PATCH] parted: correct the information of "mkpart" in man manual

[Phil Susi]

On 4/18/2017 10:44 PM, Wang Dong wrote:
> The file system type is an optional choice. you can make a new partition
> just with start and end point.

Oh, I guess I normally just run mkpart without argument and answer the
prompts.  I didn't realize when specifying all arguments on the command
line you could omit the fs type.

> That's why I made this change.
> Actually, the file system will not be applied despite you can specify
> one when to make new partition.

It is used to decide what partition type code to apply to the new
partition.  Windows has specific type codes it requires for FAT and
NTFS, and swap has its own type code by historical convention.