On 3/1/2014 9:25 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:> Historically the system ID
field of a fat boot sector contains a
> string identifying the OS that formatted it. It appears that some
> recent versions of Windows have stopped bothering with this. Stop
> requiring this string to recognize fat as valid.
Thanks !
Hopefully GParted Live ( Debian sid ) will pick this up and some further
release of it will incorporate this fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com>
> ---
> NEWS | 4 ++++
> libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c | 7 -------
> libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c | 7 -------
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 935fa33..819f1c6 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ GNU parted NEWS
-*- outline -*-
> boot partition type.
>
> ** Bug Fixes
> +
> + Do not reject a FAT boot sector as invalid because it has no
> + system ID string.
> +
> Fix gpt to correctly handle non ASCII charcters in partition names
>
> If a drive was 100 times an even multiple of two, sizes specified as
> diff --git a/libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c
b/libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c
> index d4f8dc4..dacc79c 100644
> --- a/libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c
> +++ b/libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c
> @@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ fat_boot_sector_read (FatBootSector* bs, const
PedGeometry *geom)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - if (!bs->system_id[0]) {
> - ped_exception_throw (PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR, PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL,
> - _("File system has an invalid signature for a FAT "
> - "file system."));
> - return 0;
> - }
> -
> if (!bs->sector_size
> || PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->sector_size) %
PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT) {
> ped_exception_throw (PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR, PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL,
> diff --git a/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
b/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
> index 07b39cf..3aff1d7 100644
> --- a/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
> +++ b/libparted/fs/r/fat/bootsector.c
> @@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ fat_boot_sector_read (FatBootSector* bs, const
PedGeometry *geom)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - if (!bs->system_id[0]) {
> - ped_exception_throw (PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR, PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL,
> - _("File system has an invalid signature for a FAT "
> - "file system."));
> - return 0;
> - }
> -
> if (!bs->sector_size
> || PED_LE16_TO_CPU (bs->sector_size) %
PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT) {
> ped_exception_throw (PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR, PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL,
>
