Re: Partition codes

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 26, 2002  02:36 +0200, Henrik Treadup wrote:
> Anyway I'm running into the following gedanken problem :( How can I set a 
> partitions partition code?
> 
> The only thing I can find in the documentation is "mkpart part-type ..." 
> where 
> part-type is one of the following:
> 
> ext2, fat32, fat16, HFS, linux-swap, NTFS, reiserfs, ufs
> 
> What if I want to create any of the following partitions: ext3, xfs, Compaq 
> Diagnostic Partition (partition code 0x12)? Or any other weird partition 
> type? Is there a way to directly set a partitions partition code?
> 
> Are the partition codes for all linux fs types just set to 85? Can I just do  
> "parted $DEVICE --script mkpart primary ext2 0 100" for a xfs partition?

See the code/patches at the "Cockpit Partitioner" project, which has a
bunch of changes I made to parted to allow it to be easily scripted and
also support setting numeric partition types.  The project is dead, but
the code lives on (unmaintained).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cockpit-part/

Yes, Andrew hates numeric partition types, but they are a requirement
for certain cases (BIOS, Windows, etc).

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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