bug#16885: [PATCH] libparted: don't require a system id string

2014-03-02 Thread Edward Diener
On 3/2/2014 9:49 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 03/02/2014 09:03 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >> Thanks ! >> >> Hopefully GParted Live ( Debian sid ) will pick this up and some >> further release of it will

bug#16885: [PATCH] libparted: don't require a system id string

2014-03-02 Thread Edward Diener
On 3/1/2014 9:25 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:> Historically the system ID field of a fat boot sector contains a > string identifying the OS that formatted it. It appears that some > recent versions of Windows have stopped bothering with this. Stop > requiring this string to recognize fat as valid. T

bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

2014-02-28 Thread Edward Diener
1f0: 007b 8e9b 55aa .{U. > On 02/27/2014 03:40 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >> As a follow up to my report, here is the 'parted' display for the >> disk in which the FAT32 partition is not being recognized using >> &#

bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

2014-02-27 Thread Edward Diener
On 2/27/2014 2:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:> > On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: >> >> parted's filesystem detection should not be depended on, it is for >> cosmetic purposes only. I'm not sure what gparted is doing, but it >> shouldn't be failing because of libparted's fs display.

bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

2014-02-27 Thread Edward Diener
On 2/27/2014 2:22 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:40:47AM -0500, Edward Diener wrote: >> As a follow up to my report, here is the 'parted' display for the >> disk in which the FAT32 partition is not being recognized using >> 'parted 3.1

bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

2014-02-27 Thread Edward Diener
As a follow up to my report, here is the 'parted' display for the disk in which the FAT32 partition is not being recognized using 'parted 3.1'. Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start

bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

2014-02-25 Thread Edward Diener
I have a FAT32 logical partition on an MBR hard drive. The partition ID is 0xb and the partition is successfully shared between Windows7, Windows Vista, and various Linux distros. In 'parted-3.1' if I 'print' the drive (/dev/sdc), the output does not show the type of the partition. If I try to