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Questions on mklabels for Parted

So I'm learning Parted and I'm getting to the part where I'm creating a label for the raw storage/partition that I want to format.

Code:



mklabel

I kept trying to type ext3 or ext4 and kept getting:

Code:



parted:  invalid token: ext3

There wasn't any info in the man page, however I did find that you have to use msdos in order to set a disk label on Linux. Later looking at the web page for parted mklable

https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/...d.html#mklabel

I see there are a number of types of labels

Code:



bsd

loop (raw disc access) 

gpt 

mac

msdos 

pc98 

sun

My question is what does these labels do? I mean in fdisk 'T' to type was pretty self-explanatory, however there is really no info on why you setting up an msdos partition on Linux or what the others do?

Just ran into this myself. The Debian man page for fdisk has descriptions for some of those labels.

Also, here is a good write up on gpt. Heed the warning if you dual boot Windows

Weird.

Upon a little closer reading, it appears that the parted man page advised to reference the man page for fdisk.

thanks