Dear util-linux maintainer, i used a partitioning+formatting tool product rufus 2.2. of https://rufus.akeo.ie/ This software has an extra format option for older BIOS. With this fix the main partition is created with some alignments and for the remaining unallocated space a small extra and empty partition with identification 0xEA is created. On the List of partition identifiers for PCs at http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html is is said that there is a freedesktop proposal to use also type ea as boot partition Unfortunately the software fdisk (util-linux-2.27) can not classify that partition. I send for the fdisk program my 2 patches so that fdisk recognize this partition type. pt-mbr-rufus.diff --- util-linux-2.27/include/pt-mbr.h.old 2015-06-29 13:13:14.670847471 +0200 +++ util-linux-2.27/include/pt-mbr.h 2015-09-19 16:56:35.334002045 +0200 @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ MBR_DOS_ACCESS_PARTITION = 0xe1, /* DOS access or SpeedStor 12-bit FAT extended partition */ MBR_DOS_RO_PARTITION = 0xe3, /* DOS R/O or SpeedStor */ MBR_SPEEDSTOR_EXTENDED_PARTITION = 0xe4, /* SpeedStor 16-bit FAT extended partition < 1024 cyl. */ + MBR_RUFUS_EXTRA_PARTITION = 0xea, /* Rufus extra partition for alignment */ MBR_BEOS_FS_PARTITION = 0xeb, MBR_GPT_PARTITION = 0xee, /* Intel EFI GUID Partition Table */ MBR_EFI_SYSTEM_PARTITION = 0xef, /* Intel EFI System Partition */ pt-mbr-partnames-rufus.diff --- util-linux-2.27/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h.old 2015-06-29 13:13:14.669847478 +0200 +++ util-linux-2.27/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h 2015-09-19 16:47:15.531289074 +0200 @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ {0xe3, N_("DOS R/O")}, /* DOS R/O or SpeedStor */ {0xe4, N_("SpeedStor")}, /* SpeedStor 16-bit FAT extended partition < 1024 cyl. */ + {0xea, N_("Rufus alignment")}, /* Rufus extra partition for alignment */ {0xeb, N_("BeOS fs")}, {0xee, N_("GPT")}, /* Intel EFI GUID Partition Table */ {0xef, N_("EFI (FAT-12/16/32)")},/* Intel EFI System Partition */ Signed-off-by: Jörg Jenderek <joerg.jen.der.ek@xxxxxxx> Sorry that i do this way, but i have no knowledge about git toys. Hope you can apply my patches in a future version of the fdisk program. thanks, Jörg Jenderek -- Jörg Jenderek email: joerg.jen.der.ek (at) gmx.net Germany -- 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
