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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:46:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529605B7.3020903@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131125103124.GQ5572@x2.net.home>

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On 11/25/2013 5:31 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> This is definitely bug too, because Linux does not care about 
> partition type and kernel is able to use this partition:

Isn't the bug actually in the kernel, not parted?  An ID of zero means
the slot is unused, so it shouldn't be paying any attention to the
start and length.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20131118102051.GA31813@merlins.org>
2013-11-24 13:52 ` Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss? Marc MERLIN
2013-11-25 10:31   ` Karel Zak
2013-11-25 11:59     ` Marc MERLIN
2013-11-27 14:46     ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-11-27 14:58       ` Karel Zak
2013-11-27 18:25         ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 19:58           ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 20:08             ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 20:23               ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 21:05                 ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 21:07                   ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 23:02                   ` Ángel González
2013-11-27 20:07           ` Karel Zak
2013-11-27 20:19             ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 21:09               ` Karel Zak

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