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gnome-disk-utility package

  1. Bug #571038
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 571038

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Mikhail Titov (mtitov) wrote :

sfdisk shows correct information. However when I look into EBR it doesn't make any sense to me.

$ dd if=/dev/sda2 count=1 of=ebr
$ hexdump ebr
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
*
00001c0 feff 5705 fec8 003e 0000 a2ea 052f 0000
00001d0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
*
00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 aa55
0000200

Why there is no link to next EBR?? 2nd entry is full of zeros that means an end of a linked list. And indeed it says type 0x05 that is picked up by udev, etc...