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Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:43:42 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table
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Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
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> Earlier Linux disregarded partition types, today 0 means "unused".

A number of people are being bitten by this.  Don't you think we should
revert this change?