[Parted-maintainers] Bug#293307: parted does not recognize MS-DOS partition table on iPod

[K.G.]

I eventually asked for windows formated iPod boot sectors on
the iPodLinux forum ( http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4232 )
so maybe I'll be able to write support for it even without
apple help. But this obviously will take some time, especially to
make sure whether fields in the merged DBR must be updated or not
in case of editition of the second partition entry. Also I guess
the first partition entry must not be touched (and must be
considered not empty even if the ID means empty) and this needs
some specific code. So I don't even know if the code to support
the windows formatted iPod partition table will be written at
all, as this seems to be a non trivial amount of work.

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel