Re: [PATCH] try to avoid false positives on FAT filesystem

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:39:20PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Here's a little patch to check if
> bpb.version_specific.fat12_or_fat16.fstype or
> bpb.version_specific.fat32.fstype has the string FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
> As can be seen on [0] and [1] Dell PCs have a small FAT partition
> containing some utilities.
> It seems like mkfs.ext2 isn't always clearing the first 512 bytes.
> Good for us is that fstype is set to .AT16 on these Dell partitions, so
> it can be easily avoided.
> Are there any objections?

There's one, you forgot to attach it ;-)

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