When a disk has a mac partition table and you run cfdisk on it, it
creates a new msdos partition table, but preserves the mac partition
table's signature, probably because it is in the area where the mbr boot
code is. When initializing a new MBR, cfdisk should not preserve any
existing data. fdisk does not exhibit this behavior.
To reproduce with a clean loop device:
parted /dev/loop0 mklabel mac
cfdisk /dev/loop0
parted /dev/loop0 print
Parted still recognizes the mac partition table.
The original bug report can be seen here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909424
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