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Support for WinRe partition |
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Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:36:45 +0000 |
Hello maintainers,
Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with
partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. I don't know why some vendors
use MBR rather than GPT, but it's a fact.
0x27 is in fact defined as Windows RE hidden partition (see
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html).
I haven't found a way to create a partition with this ID in parted. I used
parted 3.2 which is 4 years old but I don't think is has been changed
in Git. For example when I create a NTFS partition and do
set 3 hidden on
I get ID 0x17. Perhaps a new flag is needed, e.g.
set 3 winre on
Do you think that parted should support that? Perhaps I could contribute
a patch if it's not supported yet.
Best regards,
Hans-Joachim Baader
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Re: bug#31994: Support for WinRe partition |
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Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:32:01 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:33:21PM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:36:45AM +0000, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
> > Hello maintainers,
> >
> > Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with
> > partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. I don't know why some vendors
> > use MBR rather than GPT, but it's a fact.
I've applied the msftres on msdos patch to master, thanks! I left out
the debian specific patch for now, it doesn't seem to be necessary in my
builds using gcc 9.0.1 on Fedora rawhide.
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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)
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