Re: Sensible file system defaults

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:57 +0100, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:45:52 -0600
> Harley D. Eades III <"Harley D. Eades III" <address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
> > I think this would be a beneficial addition/change.  Also is the ext2
> > code in libparted out dated and in a need of an update (I recall
> > hearing something along these lines on IRC)?
> See my other mail on the ext2 issue...
I did :)

> I noticed another annoying issue. win32 partitions are not marked 'LBA'
> by default which is _very_ confusing for non-experts. And the Windows
> (I tried 98) installer will give all sorts of misleading messages
> ("did you enable LBA for this hard disk?") and will not work.
> So I suggest setting the LBA flag automatically for win32 partitions.
I agree, while I have never used windows that would be very annoying.
Has anyone else had this issue?

Cheers
Harley