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

Wang Dong dongdwdw at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Apr 21 07:23:01 UTC 2017


On 04/20/2017 08:50 PM, Phil Susi wrote:
> On 4/20/2017 2:17 AM, Wang Dong wrote:
>> You mean that parted will set the partition type code according to the
>> file system type? I didn't find the code in parted. Would you please
>> show me?
> See msdos_partition_set_system() in labels/dos.c.  DOS/Windows won't
> recognize their filesystems unless the partition type code is correct.
>
Yes, thanks.
I wonder if this situation just exists in Windows. Shall we make it 
specific for Windows?
I mean in Windows the fs-type is required, but optional in Linux? What 
do you think?
-- 
Best regards. Wang Dong




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