[Parted-maintainers] Bug#284134: parted: ext3 recognized as xfs

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:45:48PM +0100, Martin Lohmeier wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.6.11-8
> Severity: normal
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> Hi,
> 
> I have a testing box (not the box I'm reporting from) where I installed
> parted. I tryed to check a partition which has ext3 filesystem. But parted
> tell me that it cannot handle xfs partitions. I used xfs before, ext3 was
> installed on this partition by woody installer, I think e2fsprogs 1.27-2).
> After installing woody I updated to sarge (just check if it's working :-) ).
> Thats why parted from sarge is used.

I suppose that the xfs signature is still present on the partition, and that
thus parted recognize it since it checks xfs before ext3 partitions. Not sure
what we can do about this though.

Friendly,

Sven LUther