Re: wrong type?

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:26:26AM +0000, g whitley mott wrote:
> dear parteddies,
> 
> if i remove a primary linux-swap partition, mkpart a primary ext3
> partition in its place, and then print, print claims that it is still
> (or again) a linux-swap partition instead of ext3.

parted checks the filesystem on the partition to know the type. I don'
think this is exactly right, that it should show both.

Anyway, since you did a mkpart, and not a mkpartfs or mkfs or an mke2fs
outside of parted, then what you see is the normal reaction.

Friendly,

Sven Luther