Re: mis-identified partition in parted 1.4.5

[Andrew Clausen]

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Parted mis-identified one of my partitions.  The first logical partition
> should be linux swap instead of FAT:

I've fixed this problem in the latest pre-release (1.4.6-pre1),
although I don't recommend you use it yet... wait a bit for
1.4.6.

The problem is: Parted ignores the partition type (they are too
unreliable) - it looks for signatures on the partition.  Unfortunately,
signatures can co-exist!

In 1.4.6, we will search for ambiguous detection, and try to open
file systems.  Also, I will check that the partition type is sane
for the detected file system.

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen