Hi Michael. Michael Schmitz - 29.06.18, 10:42: > Am 28.06.18 um 21:25 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > >>> Do we really need the warning? > >>> Once the parsing is fixed doing 64-bit math, it does not matter > >>> for > >>> Linux anymore. > >> > >> Well, irony of this is: In my case the RDB has been created on a > >> machine with a native OS. So Linux warns me about something I > >> already did so on the native OS without any warning. In this case > >> AmigaOS 4.0.> > > Exactly. > > > > So moving a disk partitioned under AmigaOS 4.0 to a system running > > an > > older version of AmigaOS can fail miserably. Not a Linux issue. > > Linux also doesn't warn about disks with GPT failing to work on old > > MSDOS. > Would MSDOS recognize the GPT partition as 'probably FAT', and attempt > to use it? As far as I know most GPT partitioning tools create a fake MBR with one large partition of a partition type for GPT to tell legacy applications to leave the disk alone. Thanks, -- Martin
