Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven - 29.06.18, 10:51: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:43 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > > No idea... > > Probably some old Windows or MacOS versions will just suggest to > format your "new" disk ;-) Heh… MacOS X last I saw it just offers to initialize any disk it does not know about. I had this with a friend who uses Mac quite some years ago with an external harddrive with Linux filesystems. I told him Mac OS X would not understand it, but he did not believe me. Well luckily enough I have been quick enough to unplug the USB cable before he could hit the initialize button. And yes, that is right, Mac OS X at that time did not even tell the user that initializing means *formatting the disk and making all data that was previously on it unavailable*. I did not even believe it that they had no stern warning about initializing in the dialog window. I hope they improved the wording meanwhile. Thanks, -- Martin
