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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> We really need to get to a point where we treat partition types 
> seriously and
> use it to help avoid false positives. Reducing or eliminating false 
> positives
> is critical if we ever want to go towards DWIM or auto-mounting. With the
> partition type taken into consideration, we may be able to eliminate 
> ad hoc
> checks, like the zero check in g_part_ebr, without creating false 
> positives.
>
True but keep in mind that partition types are actually getting actually 
less important. The label is not what is in the container- only a 
filesystem checker can really adequately figure out whether something is 
mountable.