[parted-devel] Question about partition id's

[Phil Susi]

On 10/16/2017 3:44 PM, Kristian - wrote:
> I have seen that parted library tries to understand the filesystem
> contained in a partition, but does not provide the id associated with
> the partition. For example, in msdos tables, for each partition there
> is a byte indicating the partition type. In GPT tables this id is 16
> bytes long, and in other tables may be different. Do you intend to
> make this information available in the future? I could help if
> needed.

parted was designed to hide such inane and useless complexity from the
user.  The partition type code mostly only matters to Windows.  Linux
doesn't care what the code is.