On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 15:44 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Perhaps someone created a partition table on the device, but then > wrote a FAT32 filesystem to the raw device, and the bits on the only > filesystem look close enough like filesystem entries to confuse > tools?
If someone uses more than one partition tool on a drive, you can end up with conflicting results. Some tools set info in the boot section, and a back-up somewhere else. Some tools handle just the boot section. Some tools get confused when the boot section and back-up don't agree with each other. Others don't give a damn, and ignore the secondary info. Never mind the tools which have different ideas about doing the same things. Same goes with formatting. I wouldn't externally format a drive using different tools and expect it to be problem free. As a wacky example, I renamed a SD card on a Mac (which changes some parameters at the start of the SD card, but shouldn't do anything else). When I put that SD card into a recorder, it had to reformat the card. Fortunately this was a blank card that I was doing an experiment on. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.95.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 24 13:59:37 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
