[Parted-maintainers] Bug#719862: should detect ext2 despite residue SWAPSPACE label

[psusi at ubuntu.com]

Zero out whichever signature is incorrect.  IIRC, mke2fs was fixed at some point to wipe old signatures to prevent this sort of thing.

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-----Original Message-----
From: jidanni at jidanni.org
To: psusi at ubuntu.com
Cc: 719862 at bugs.debian.org
Sent: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#719862: should detect ext2 despite residue SWAPSPACE label

>>>>> "p" == psusi  <psusi at ubuntu.com> writes:
p> This isn't really a bug; if there are two signatures then both are correct responses.

It breaks gparted, one must use cfdisk instead. It is a perfectly good
ext2 partition with some residual junk there...

So what would you recommend the user to do to clean it up so he can use parted?
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