parted: create new partition I have a 3TB disk, and I understand I have to use `parted` if I want to create a partition bigger than 2TB. All right then. parted /dev/sdb (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart primary File system type? [ext2]? Say what? It does not let me to create a partition without specifying a FS type. Why does `parted` insist on specifying a FS type. AFAIU, a FS type is completly independent from a partition. In `man parted`, I read that: fs-type can be one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap", or "reiserfs". I don't want any of these. I want to create a partition to be used as LUKS partition. What should I select?

Parted prompts and goes into an interactive mode when you do not provide enough information to create the partition with the command. The following will create a partition that spans the entire disk and will not prompt for filesystem type:


mkpart primary 1 -1