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