[parted-devel] [PATCH] libparted/dasd: improve lvm/raid flag handling for DASD-CDL

[Phil Susi]

On 5/24/2017 9:48 AM, Sebastian Parschauer wrote:
> The problem only still exists for swap. parted can't distinguish between
> "Linux native" and "Linux swap" before mkswap is run.
> 
> For GPT that's already fixed by:
> c7ce5d48f6fa libparted: set swap flag on GPT partitions

I have never seen the point of having a separate type code for swap.
Nobody uses it.  As far as I am concerned, we should get rid of it.