On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:41:39PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I thought that valid boot sectors have a checksum or some kind of > signature bytes.
Do you mean the 0xAA55 MBR signature? > It might be worth verifying that it is a valid boot > sector before blindly using it. If it is not a valid boot sector, one > might as well fill it with zeros. Definitely - it should be simpler than checking whether we're creating new extended partition or modifying existing one. -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
