From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: psusi@ubuntu.com Message-ID: <52965E84.4070101@ubuntu.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:05:08 -0500 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Gedak , Karel Zak CC: Marc MERLIN , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss? References: <20131118102051.GA31813@merlins.org> <20131124135226.GH11389@merlins.org> <20131125103124.GQ5572@x2.net.home> <529605B7.3020903@ubuntu.com> <20131127145840.GB32483@x2.net.home> <52963910.60800@ubuntu.com> <52964ED3.8030504@gmail.com> <5296515A.1070505@ubuntu.com> <529654CF.1010904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <529654CF.1010904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2013 3:23 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > IMHO Apple's choice of using an ID of zero for the firmware > partition is a poor decision. With that being said, these devices > with this strange ID setting do exist in the real world. So it doesn't bother the iPod if you change the id? I'm thinking parted should throw an exception noting the broken partition and offer to fix it by changing the id, or deleting it. Changing the id would have the added benefit of keeping Windows from overwriting it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSll6EAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwPCIH/2wSSKh/XT5J5fSpuqEG4NVq +n/rhl8WpgfQhVjoAJbzoR9T6loDozdRXiqtunQ0kzGb8qreTiKmJJGMf/writiN 8PaFFyX+ga8geO6RALiTLp5yzNTUjUn8VGsaWwWozMwp5HsUte2lzVVcDPdKfY43 CBt8jXSXQxHyJlz2xbFlR2qo6/iGeUrYSI6rpoqMRnN6WU4KDBuZeJ3ByXg+Cli2 bFEGTr0B8lAJ3KSOWWBhOjSVpP22HypaTXI+xPth5LV4/AlbOuIZGuLk/uZSBnQF ubv4xsodXfXcr97ZODUIstshKBS7pdVa33D2PE+4Yd0fOds0jWCSrKoubamIvCM= =8DRl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----