-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2013 3:07 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > Seriously, maybe it's fine to ignore the partition with the zero > type by kernel, but I don't think it's good way for fdisk-like > applications. > > IMHO it's better to force users to delete the partition than rely > on the flag. See this thread, user lost data because somehow set > the type to zero and fdisk reused the space. Only because fdisk let them set it to zero in the first place ;) > From my point of view all partitions with non-zero size should be > visible by fdisk (or parted) independently on flags or types. I don't like the idea of showing a different view of the partition table than DOS/Windows; that way lies suffering. I can maybe see complaining that the entry is invalid and letting you change the type to correct the problem ( assuming the start and length don't put it outside the disk or overlapping other partitions ), but it should be very clear that this is a broken entry. > I'll probably add a warning to fdisk to inform users about the zero > type problem. It already does warn you when you set the type to 0. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSllPcAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw+6YH/AlZ34QNORe1YxXKAT3g02Ro YMCVnS8iQdyw15Sj7zJDnl8ZVKkq87jlB/9HuHTrseMSdepK4pt38Gu9nkNXeFiU 7uyk5RLL9C6E90BE1GuV2FT0e02jLUS0BJpylMPFDSdmtNe7/3xVMOlxqkRGycFQ CF0C2wGV878/pFje4XQbn48WGysVL+BN6PbjdWZZaOqAlldx154la+oYl9h+JkpO KAfPZdtjIe/q9zXY4hQJzh7VIWgL/vf27/XYnzAXaxBxAiugdUMLinUQJ0j5TwB5 Ju8rN9P9RgQ9SAA6PNTfi5nWYPk1d6brTklQFCHdrGyJ54Pwdm7DKWOGaWxdtqQ= =rHzX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
