It looks like cfdisk does not zap the mac boot sector, so parted still
thinks it is valid.  You should be able to zero the first 32 or 64k of
the disk and recreate the partitions to resolve the issue.


** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

** Also affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Summary changed:

- Parted reports ext3 partition as hfs+
+ after using cfdisk to format a mac disk, parted still uses the mac partition 
table

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  after using cfdisk to format a mac disk, parted still uses the mac
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