On 10/17/2017 5:33 PM, Kristian - wrote: > I agree with you Phil, parted should hide complexity to the user. But > I don't think this information is useless for all users, or better > speaking: for all library front end's. I see that parted does not > display this information, and maybe it is not interested in. Anyway, > this information is stored in the partition table but, using > libparted, we can't read or modify it without extremely crappy > trick's. Other partitioning programs let the user view and change > this field. Why programs using libparted shouldn't offer this > functionality?
I think that historically libparted was designed to try to provide a common unified api for all partition table types, and partition type codes are highly partition table specific. If someone wanted to add a new interface to allow passing an arbitrary string to be interpreted by the specific partition table as some kind of appropriate type code, I would not be opposed to it.
