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.
