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e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #66032
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 66032

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote :

I'm pretty sure this bug is related to bug #110138, where the partition is getting mis-identified as an NTFS parition.

Due to a bug in e2fsprogs previous to version 1.30, the initial bootsector (which is where the NTFS signature is stored) wasn't getting erased. This could cause blkid to misidentify the filesystem as NTFS. This would only happen on old partitions which had previously contained NTFS, and which were formated as ext2/ext3 using an old mke2fs binary.

A quick workaround to this problem is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=1 count=512

I have a patch which makes blkid less likely to report a false positive; it has been attached to bug #110138.

Regards,