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Bug#236172: When parted detects file systems, it looks only at the start of the partitions



Parted looks only at the start of the partitions in order to detect
the file systems.  It doesn't check that the length of the partition
is the same as the length of the file system.

This means that if I had say /dev/sda7 formatted as a swap space, then
removed /dev/sda7 and created a new partition with the same start but
different length, parted will still recognise this partition as a swap
space and partconf will try to use it automatically as such.

Anton Zinoviev



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