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Bug in GNU Parted - mistakes MBR for a FAT32 partition

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From: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 <at> gmail.com>, 25251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25251: Bug in GNU Parted - mistakes MBR for a FAT32 partition
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:27:09 -0400

On 12/22/2016 5:08 PM, Sebastian Audet wrote:
> I have a FAT32 partition on an MSDOS style disk (its actually an mSata
> drive connected through USB for ultimate installation in another hardware
> device that must read FAT32 - long story and tertiary to what I've found),
> and through much debugging of software, I believe I have found a rather bad
> bug in the Parted software.
> 
> Using the latest parted 3.2, when opening a device and creating a disk from
> said device, the msdos partition table detector will fail if the fat32
> partition detector fails to fail. I'm not sure why, but parted thinks my
> boot sector (my MBR, the first sector on the disk) looks like a fat32
> partition.

Can you hd ( hex dump ) the MBR so I can take a look at it?

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