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

[Phil Susi]

On 4/21/2017 3:23 AM, Wang Dong wrote:
> 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?

People create Windows filesystems from linux, but perhaps we should
consider getting rid of the fs-type and just exposing the partition type
codes directly for when people need to set it.  That would be a big
change though and probably mean going to parted 4.0.