On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > below is a fdisk report from my son's G3 iMac DV which describes his > 4.7G Linux part as a 'NewWorld bootblock'...yet 'gparted' describes the > same part correctly as a 'ext3' fs -- which is what I formatted it as > in the Ubuntu install...
As said, parted goes looking for the partition content, and checks each filesystem it knows about in turn. If you had an ext3 before it was a newworld bootblock, and you didn't fully erase it, then the stuff parted looks for stays there, and fools parted. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
