Re: Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss?

[Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>]

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On 11/27/2013 9:58 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> After 20 years it's feature ;-) as I'm almost sure that we cannot
> fix it and disable all partition where is no the ID.

While that's cute and all, I think we both know it isn't really true ;)

> And Linux kernel have never cared about partition type (this is
> not specific to MBR, the same behaviour we have for Sun, SGI, MAC,
> BSD, ..), only PT where we care is GPT (zero GUID is ignored).

True, the type does not matter... so long as it is !0.  Windows will
consider such an entry unused and happily allow you to create a new
partition using that space, so we certainly don't want to allow people
to make such a partition in fdisk, and the kernel really should ignore
it too.  To do otherwise will lead people to lose data when Windows
thinks the entry is unused.

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