severity 291990 normal
tags 291990 +pending
thanks
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:33:31AM -0800, David Fox wrote:
> Package: libblkid1
> Version: 1.35-8
> Severity: important
>
> There is a "quick format" option in windows to create an NTFS file system.
> It does not zero out the partition, so it leaves enough magic around to let
> blkid recognize the file system as reiserfs. (The magic numbers for reiserfs
> appear at a substantial offset from the beginning, maybe 13K or more.) Since
> the reiserfs cases appear before the NTFS cases in the libblkid code that
> looks for magic numbers, the file system is identified as reiserfs instead of
> ntfs. Moving the reiserfs cases down appears to fix the problem.
Thanks for pointing this out. This is really more of a Windows bug
more than anything else, but it will be fixed in the next version of
e2fsprogs.
- Ted
# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
# 2005/01/25 03:26:10-05:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# probe.c: Windows can perform a "quick format" that doesn't clear
# enough of the partition that the blkid probes can get
# confused. Do the NTFS test first to deal with this
# Windows misfeature. (Addresses Debian Bug #291990)
#
# lib/blkid/probe.c
# 2005/01/25 03:26:10-05:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 -1
# probe.c: Windows can perform a "quick format" that doesn't clear
# enough of the partition that the blkid probes can get
# confused. Do the NTFS test first to deal with this
# Windows misfeature. (Addresses Debian Bug #291990)
#
# lib/blkid/ChangeLog
# 2005/01/25 03:26:10-05:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 -0
# Update log
#
diff -Nru a/lib/blkid/ChangeLog b/lib/blkid/ChangeLog
--- a/lib/blkid/ChangeLog 2005-01-25 03:26:19 -05:00
+++ b/lib/blkid/ChangeLog 2005-01-25 03:26:19 -05:00
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-01-25 Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * probe.c: Windows can perform a "quick format" that doesn't clear
+ enough of the partition that the blkid probes can get
+ confused. Do the NTFS test first to deal with this
+ Windows misfeature. (Addresses Debian Bug #291990)
+
2005-01-21 Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* probe.c (probe_oracleasm): Add support for recognizing Oracle
diff -Nru a/lib/blkid/probe.c b/lib/blkid/probe.c
--- a/lib/blkid/probe.c 2005-01-25 03:26:19 -05:00
+++ b/lib/blkid/probe.c 2005-01-25 03:26:19 -05:00
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@
static struct blkid_magic type_array[] = {
/* type kboff sboff len magic probe */
{ "oracleasm", 0, 32, 8, "ORCLDISK", probe_oracleasm },
+ { "ntfs", 0, 3, 8, "NTFS ", 0 },
{ "jbd", 1, 0x38, 2, "\123\357", probe_jbd },
{ "ext3", 1, 0x38, 2, "\123\357", probe_ext3 },
{ "ext2", 1, 0x38, 2, "\123\357", probe_ext2 },
@@ -475,7 +476,6 @@
{ "reiserfs", 64, 0x34, 9, "ReIsEr3Fs", probe_reiserfs },
{ "reiserfs", 64, 0x34, 8, "ReIsErFs", probe_reiserfs },
{ "reiserfs", 8, 20, 8, "ReIsErFs", probe_reiserfs
},
- { "ntfs", 0, 3, 8, "NTFS ", 0 },
{ "vfat", 0, 0x52, 5, "MSWIN", probe_vfat },
{ "vfat", 0, 0x52, 8, "FAT32 ", probe_vfat },
{ "vfat", 0, 0x36, 5, "MSDOS", probe_msdos },
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