Misdetects SWAP partition as FAT partition and mounts it rw

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Warty LiveCD, i386:

warty@ubuntu:~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
This disk has both DOS and BSD magic.
Give the 'b' command to go to BSD mode.

Disk /dev/sda: 1080 MB, 1080735744 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 131 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap
warty@ubuntu:~ $ grep -A1 -B1 sda /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=warty 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=warty 0 0

(The first occurrence is preceded by a comment "Added by Morphix", the second not.)

The only reason this would not lead to data loss is that the partition is swap
and not ext3/xfs/whatever. If it happens with another partition type, severity
should be critical.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

The Hoary live CD doesn't attempt to automatically mount partitions, so this is
no longer a problem.