bug#31994: Support for WinRe partition

2019-01-31 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:33:21PM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:36:45AM +, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > > Hello maintainers, > > > > Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with > > partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. I don't know why some ven

bug#31994: Support for WinRe partition

2019-01-14 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hello maintainers, finally I found the time to complete a patch. If I have to sign a copyright assignment it will take some more time. I have amended the documentation and ran the tests. The existing tests covered the flag already so I didn't write a new test. Also I had to patch libparted/uni

bug#31994: Support for WinRe partition

2018-07-19 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:36:45AM +, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > Hello maintainers, > > Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with > partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. I don't know why some vendors > use MBR rather than GPT, but it's a fact. > > 0x27 is in fact def

bug#31994: Support for WinRe partition

2018-06-28 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hello maintainers, Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. I don't know why some vendors use MBR rather than GPT, but it's a fact. 0x27 is in fact defined as Windows RE hidden partition (see https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/par