Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, [Bug 1455] wrote: > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-11 10:56 ------- > > I reported this problem for what was it, Mandrake 8.0 or > > thereabout and it was never fixed. Pascal: there are people with > > HPFS partitions around, and correctly recognizing them is a big > > plus for Diskdrake (not to mention: I don't want to think about > > what would happen when I'd try to resize my HPFS partition with > > the NTFS resizing capability of diskdrake!!) > > ntfsresize, what diskdrake uses, would do nothing. It recognizes > it's not a valid NTFS. > > Yesterday I wrote how diskdrake could detect NTFS reliable > (additionally to partition type detection, it should be 2-3 lines of > code but maybe I'm wrong, I don't know diskdrake) and all other > filesystems with partition type 7 would be "other" as before.
i only thought about the *display* problem. I agree DrakX thinking it is ntfs is a problem. I'm going to fix it. > > Actually trusting based only on partition type is not very reliable > (very dangerous). I've seen NTFS volumes with ext[23] partition type > and everything worked just fine. and i've seen an ext2 partition which could be mounted as FAT (and that's what mount(1) did) and resulted in an ugly mess :) since alas magics are not always exclusive...
