[parted-devel] Atari label false positives

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Sat May 12 12:24:36 BST 2018


On 05/12/2018 10:41 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>> Do you have a dump of the root sector (plus additional eventual extended
>>> partition root sector) from these bugs?
>>
>> This is a very good point. We should have a look at the probing code in
>> the kernel because apparently the problem doesn't exist there.
> 
> It may not exist because the MSDOS partition detection is specific
> enough to reject Atari partition tables. But still, compare the kernel
> partition parsers to see what may be missing.

Which would mean that the kernel probes for DOS partition tables before
Atari partition tables, wouldn't it?

Adrian

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