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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> Ouch. You may have to use partedit from PartitionMagic (or some other
> low-level partition editor) to manually change the partition type.

Like, say it, dd(1).  However, partitioning code doesn't give a damn for
entry type - "empty" means "zero number of sectors" for it.  Something
very screwy is going on.

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