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I am running this line:
parted -s ${drive} -- mklabel msdos \ mkpart primary 0% 100%

and then formatting with vfat but my question is do i need to specify fs-type if just making it msdos ?

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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cesar
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    The question title is misleading. You can indeed say parted $disk mkpart $label $FSTYPE, and I was hoping to find an answer covering whether or not the fstype has to be specified, and what are the consequences of specifying a different one from what the filesystem will be, e.g. parted ... mkpart ... ext4 followed by mkfs.xfs .... No matter, I think it's safest to omit the fstype in parted. – Rich Oct 11 '17 at 18:09

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The mklabel command specifies the type of partition table. The partition itself still needs to be formatted correctly.

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  • thanks for that. i was trying to find this in the man pages but i just wanted to make sure. – cesar Jan 19 '16 at 00:05