[parted-devel] discrepancy in the guid value used by libparted for fat/ntfs filesystems

[Joel Granados]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:21:09AM +0530, rahul dev wrote:
> 
> Guys,
> 
>   I am using "parted-1.8.1". I noticed one dicrepancy between the guid value used for fat/ntfs filesystems by parted and windows.

This is rather outdated.  We are currently in 1.8.8.1 version.  We most
probably solved this, but it would be of great help if you could
perform the test in the current version. Or better yet, with the current
git HEAD of the master branch.

Regards.

> 
> libparted uses "PARTITION_MSFT_RESERVED_GUID" for ntfs/fat filesystems, whereas windows uses "PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID" for these filesystems.
> 
> I looked at the wiki for GUID partition table "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table". Wiki also says that windows uses "PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID" for their data partitions (ntfs/fat etc).
> 
> Can someone please have a look at this. Is libparted using incorrect guid for fat/ntfs filesystems ?
> 
> thanks,
> rahul
> 
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