Zero out whichever signature is incorrect. IIRC, mke2fs was fixed at some point to wipe old signatures to prevent this sort of thing.
Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: jida...@jidanni.org To: ps...@ubuntu.com Cc: 719...@bugs.debian.org Sent: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 9:05 AM Subject: Re: Bug#719862: should detect ext2 despite residue SWAPSPACE label >>>>> "p" == psusi <ps...@ubuntu.com> writes: p> This isn't really a bug; if there are two signatures then both are correct responses. It breaks gparted, one must use cfdisk instead. It is a perfectly good ext2 partition with some residual junk there... So what would you recommend the user to do to clean it up so he can use parted?
