From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:11:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:11:40 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:28941 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:11:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:22:25 +0000 From: Russell King To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: t_benk@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [util-linux] cfdisk bug? Message-ID: <20030314142225.B23686@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, t_benk@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:33:21PM +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vurnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > And maybe someone who knows about Acorns can add a test > to make it less likely that an Acorn is recognized by accident. Unfortunately, the checksum is all there is to positively identify this partitioning scheme. Yes, it's crap, but that's what happens when there's a lack of direction from the top and people go off and do their own partitioning schemes. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html