Hans de Goede wrote:
> From: David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com>
>
> Original patch by David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com>, I
> (Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com>) made the following changes:
> -msdos_partition_is_flag_available() should return 1 for swap flag
> -Only change the partition type to 82 when setting the swap flag
> on dos labels, not when resetting it
Hans,
What is the motivation for this change?
The existing "set 1 swap on" functionality is documented to be
specific to MAC partition tables:
`swap'
(Mac) - this flag should be enabled if the partition is the
swap device to be used by Linux.
AFAICS, it's not intended to be a general (partition-table-independent)
way to set the per- partition "type". For an msdos partition table,
if you just want to set the type of a newly-created partition to swap(82),
use mkpart's file system type argument:
parted -s $dev mkpart primary linux-swap 60s 100s
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