Teresa e Junior wrote: > Hello! Firstly, I was in doubt to which mailing list I should ask this > question!
[email protected] is preferred. No big deal. $ parted --help|tail -1 Report bugs to [email protected] > I need to implement disk partitioning in an application written by me. I know > I > should change de ID of the partition with something like "sfdisk --id" before > running mkfs*, but `man sfdisk' says: > > sfdisk doesn't understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not > designed for large partitions. In particular case use more advanced GNU > parted(8). > > and when running `parted mkfs [...]': > > WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (mkfs) a file system. > parted's file system manipulation code is not as robust as what you'll find in > dedicated, file-system-specific packages like e2fsprogs. We recommend > you use parted only to manipulate partition tables, whenever possible. > Support for performing most operations on most types of file systems > ****will be removed in an upcoming release.**** > > sfdisk tells me not to use it, and parted too! I just want to set the ID of > the > filesystem and, since I should expect users with different kinds of hardware, > what is recommended then? I tried to get the output from GParted, but it does > not tell how it does so. In that case, use parted's mkpart sub-command rather than mkfs mkpart lets you set the ID, but unlike mkfs, does not try to create a file system. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
