Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 07:07 +0100 schrieb phcoder: > 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? No I don't want to check the partition type. FAT partitions normally have the string FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 at the beginning of 512 bytes of the partition. But these DELL FAT partions have there the string .AT16 so it would be a solution for the Debian bug report we got. But yes the best would be to probe for FAT at last but I don't know how to change the order, in fs.lst FAT is listed after ext2 but it seems that FAT is checked before ext2.
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