Clear the msftres 'flag' set by GNU parted

May 28, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: blubbel

If you have the problem that OS X doesn't recognize your FAT/NTFS partition because GNU parted changed the partition type to "Microsoft Reserved," this might help.

In GNU parted, it looks like 'msftres' was a flag, but this is not the case. It refers to the partition type 'Microsoft Reserved,' which can be used for NTFS and FAT. The partition type 'Basic data' can also be used for these file systems, which is then recognized by OS X.

Fortunately Linux also uses 'Basic data' for its main partitions, so the solution is to change the file system type to ext2 using GNU parted.

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