If I understood you correctly you propose to use partition table
information to determine filesystem. I'm personally against it. First of
all it isn't portable - it probably wouldn't work on GPT. Second if you
just do mkfs.* <device> the partition type isn't changed. Linux ignores
partition type and so if your patch is applied there will be many bug
reports like "hey, *FS isn't detected". Finally sometimes you
intentionally change partition type in the technics like partition
hiding. IMO the correct solution to this problem is to make sure that
fat and ntfs are probed at last. Should we add a priority field for this?
Thanks
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Felix Zielcke wrote:
Here's a little patch to check if
bpb.version_specific.fat12_or_fat16.fstype or
bpb.version_specific.fat32.fstype has the string FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
As can be seen on [0] and [1] Dell PCs have a small FAT partition
containing some utilities.
It seems like mkfs.ext2 isn't always clearing the first 512 bytes.
Good for us is that fstype is set to .AT16 on these Dell partitions, so
it can be easily avoided.
Are there any objections?
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/514263
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/505137
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