The msdos partition table does not support names; use gpt for that. On 4/9/2018 12:03 AM, Will Haley wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html says, regarding > `mkpart`, that a name can be specified as an argument to `mkpart`. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#mkpart > > Command: *mkpart* *[part-type fs-type name] start end* > > That does not seem to be true with the latest build of parted. At least, > not in the versions currently packaged for Ubuntu 16, Arch, or when > compiling from the git master as of 2018/04/08 > > The doc I referenced above states: "This document applies roughly to > version *3.2* of GNU Parted." > > Unfortunately, the documented syntax does not appear to be valid. > Considering that the documentation index states the docs were last updated > in 2016, I'm assuming the syntax online is outdated. > https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/ > > This is what I see when compiling parted from the latest souce. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/parted.git > > $ ./parted --version > parted (GNU parted) 3.2.94-7188 > > $ ./parted --help | grep -i mkpart > mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition > > Indeed, trying to specify a name for `mkpart` results in an error. > > Please let me know if there is anything I can to do assist in updating this > documentation. > > Thank you. > > -Will >
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