Re: various mishandlings of corrupt GPT

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On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:59 AM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Such a tool also should diagnose both overlap and unclaimed space,
> and provide some means for repair of these conditions.
> For example in the case of "minor" overlap: repair might be "minimum wins",
> "maximum wins", or arbitrary edit of extent fields.
> The tool also should diagnose "protective MBR" situations and
> understand common values for partition type entries (both GPT and MBR).
> It should provide the ability to overwrite any existing checksum
> with the calculated correct checksum.  The tool also should be able
> to erase both GPT tables (overwrite all bytes to 0x00.)

For now the scope is unattended operation at startup or shutdown. I think all of the above suggestions need a user to be directly involved.


Chris Murphy
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