On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> wrote:

> In the short term I guess recognizing btrfs will break less things that
> parse the output, but maybe in the next major release we should just
> drop it.

On the other hand, parted recognizing a device has a file system on it, even 
when it doesn't have a partition table is vaguely useful. Granted, mkfs.xfs 
requires -f to obliterate another file system, and mkfs.btrfs should soon if 
not already.


Chris Murphy

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