On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 09:46:15AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 11/25/2013 5:31 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > This is definitely bug too, because Linux does not care about
> > partition type and kernel is able to use this partition:
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> Isn't the bug actually in the kernel, not parted? An ID of zero means
> the slot is unused, so it shouldn't be paying any attention to the
> start and length.
After 20 years it's feature ;-) as I'm almost sure that we cannot fix
it and disable all partition where is no the ID.
And Linux kernel have never cared about partition type (this is not
specific to MBR, the same behaviour we have for Sun, SGI, MAC, BSD,
..), only PT where we care is GPT (zero GUID is ignored).
Karel
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