Re: [Gptfdisk-general] [PATCH] Fix creating of two 0xEE partitions in hybrid MBR

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 06/17/2012 01:39 PM, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> Imagine, that I want to hybridize two partitions and I don't want to put
> 0xEE partition first in the table (it's a flash drive to be used with
> Windows). In my particular case the layout is the following:
>
>      Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>         1            2048         7243775   3.5 GiB     8E00  Linux LVM
>         2         7243776        11438079   2.0 GiB     8300  Linux
> filesystem
>         3        11438080        15633374   2.0 GiB     0700  Microsoft
> basic data
>
> Original code will make hybridized partitions #1 and #2 in the MBR
> partition table, then it will create an 0xEE partition #4, then it will
> ask me if I want to cover unused space (sure, I want to cover backup GPT
> at the end of the disk), and then it will make partition #4 cover the
> end of the disk. So I end up with main GPT structures unprotected and
> one empty slot in MBR GPT like this:
>
>      Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
>         1              11438080     15633374   primary     0x0C
>         2               7243776     11438079   primary     0x83
>         4              15633375     15633407   primary     0xEE
>
> Modified code does this:
>
>      Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
>         1              11438080     15633374   primary     0x0C
>         2               7243776     11438079   primary     0x83
>         3                     1      7243775   primary     0xEE
>         4              15633375     15633407   primary     0xEE

OK, thanks for the clarification. I'm accepting this patch into the next 
version of the program.

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Rod Smith
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