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Bug 328100 - Add ability to set partition type (or LBA flag)
Add ability to set partition type (or LBA flag)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330453
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
0.1
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-21 23:25 UTC by Mark Bailey
Modified: 2006-02-08 23:16 UTC
See Also:
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Description Mark Bailey 2006-01-21 23:25:24 UTC 
I would like the ability to create a FAT 32 partition
of type "C", W95 FAT32 (LBA), in addition to the current
type "B", W95 FAT32.  This appears necessary to support
running DOS 7.1 (the version of DOS shipped with Windows
98SE which supports FAT32).  This type shows up with the
"LBA" entry under flags after changed from "b" to "c" 
using fdisk.  My current workaround is to create the
partition with gparted and then use fdisk to change the
type from "b" to "c".
Comment 1 Plors (Bart H) 2006-01-27 13:29:28 UTC 
hmm, i see.
I'll look into it as soon as i can, thanks for reporting.
Comment 2 Plors (Bart H) 2006-01-27 17:01:51 UTC 
i've just looked at the libparted source and i don't think it is able to see this difference. However, i'll forward this bug to the libparted guys so we can have their opinion.

I'll keep you posted :)
Comment 3 Plors (Bart H) 2006-01-29 09:45:46 UTC 
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Patrick Leslie Polzer <leslie.polzer@gmx.net>

libparted does not really know about partition identificators (which is
a thing that is on our to-be-fixed list).

Use ped_partition_set_flag() with the LBA flag to enable LBA mode.
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Comment 4 Plors (Bart H) 2006-01-29 09:46:57 UTC 
setting flags is somewhere on my TODO :)
Comment 5 Plors (Bart H) 2006-02-08 23:16:36 UTC 
duping this one to keep things centralized.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 330453 ***